Capital M, circled — the universal shorthand for subway and underground rail systems in cities around the world. It's used for city commuting and urban-life content — the daily grind of getting somewhere fast beneath the street rather than fighting traffic above it in a car or on a bus.
What 🚇 means
A black enclosure signifying a tunnel with a forth-coming metro train, described with a squarish appearance, a large windshield partitioned in two, headlights on the train and visible tracks underneath.
The 🚇 Metro emoji represents inter-city travel via trains. Since these trains are generally found in urban areas, this emoji too could signify urban lifestyle, travel, and public modes of transport.
How and when to use it
- Use 🚇 to indicate that your metro is here or that you're at the metro station before you lose phone connectivity, of course.
- If you're texting someone that you'll arrive at a planned destination via the metro, use 🚇.
- While sharing news posts about metro trains or the metro connectivity in your city, you can use 🚇 in the post caption.
- 🚇 can also be used to refer to subways and other underground train lines. So, the next time you share pictures from your first underground train trip, you can use this emoji in the caption!
- If you're from a metro-politan city, you can use 🚇 in your social media profile name. This holds good even if you're an employee at any metro station in town.
Other Names
- 🚇 Metro Train
- 🚇 Subway
- 🚇 LRT
- 🚇 Mass Transit
- 🚇 Underground Train
- 🚇 Rapid Transit
- 🚇 Rail Rapid Transit
- 🚇 Light Rail
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › transport-ground
- Codepoints
U+1F687- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:metro:- Keywords
- metro, subway, travel
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🚇 Metro or Orca?