⛴️

Ferry Emoji ⛴️

Larger and boxier than a sailboat, built to carry people rather than chase the wind across open water. It's used for island-hopping trips and literal commutes across water, wherever a bridge or tunnel just isn't an option and the boat is the only realistic way across.

What ⛴️ means

A left-facing water vessel with a wide hull, a protective grill in front, and two sections of the passenger cabin, with the top section equipped with a radar, compass bridge, and a radio antenna.

The ⛴️ Ferry Emoji represents a form of a passenger ship but slightly smaller. Used to transport people, and some amount of cargo across waterways, this emoji can also suggest a water taxi or water bus too.

How and when to use it

If you're posting or reposting about the best waterways in a particular tourist destination or the best way to get there (via water), you can use ⛴️.
The same applies even while texting someone about it or advising someone about the ferry facilities in a vacation spot. Like "Take the ferry in Venice, it works best ⛴️".
If you're sharing a post about the best ferries in the world, or a fascinating ferry video, or even a link to an article about ferries, you can use ⛴️ in all those contexts.
While posting pictures or even videos from your holiday where you took ferries (for the first time or not), use ⛴️ in the caption.
If you're sharing news posts about waterways in general, or ferries specifically, you can bring the ⛴️ emoji into the caption.

Other Names

⛴️ Ferry Boat
⛴️ Packet Boat
⛴️ Passenger Boat
⛴️ Water Taxi
⛴️ Water Bus
⛴️ Train Ferry
⛴️ Merchant Vessel
⛴️ Passenger Ferry
⛴️ Passenger-Cargo Ferry

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-water
Codepoints: U+26F4 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :ferry: GitHub
Keywords: boat, ferry, passenger

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.