Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
🚤Speedboat Emoji
It usually just means “boat” or “speedboat.” People often use it to express excitement about boating or water sports.
The 🚤 emoji represents a speedboat.
- Unicode
- U+1F6A4
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :speedboat:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🚤 Speedboat emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
02 — Platforms
Speedboat emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the speedboat as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Speedboat emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :speedboat:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F6A4.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🚤 Speedboat emoji
No picker to hand? The speedboat can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Speedboat emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Speedboat emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around speedboat for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🚤 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🚤 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the speedboat lands changes how it is taken.
10 — History
Where the 🚤 Speedboat emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F6A4 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🚤 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6A3, KDDI au E4B4, SoftBank E135.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Speedboat was approved as U+1F6A4 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🚤 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
11 — FAQ