Bullet train
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- Shortcode
:bullettrain_front:- Shortcode
:bullet_train:- Unicode
U+1F685- HTML
🚅- CSS
\1F685- JavaScript
"\u{1F685}"- URL
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What ๐ means
A bullet train with its long, rounded nose, the type made famous by Japan's shinkansen. It means speed and fast trips across the country.
Sent when someone books a fast rail trip, especially in Japan, or to say something is moving at top speed. It pairs with ๐ป or ๐ฏ๐ต in travel posts, and anime fans use it for train scenes set in Japanese cities.
Facts
Bullet train ๐ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under transport ground. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :bullettrain_front: or :bullet_train:. People also look for it with words like โbulletโ, โhigh-speedโ, โnoseโ, or โrailwayโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.