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Minibus Emoji 🚐

Fewer seats and more windows down the side mark this as a small van-style bus, built for a handful of riders rather than a full busload. Airport shuttles, camp trips, and small tour groups get the literal use, and it covers any short shared ride too small to count as a proper bus.

What 🚐 means

The side profile of a small bus with a rectangular appearance and an extended nose-like structure in the front, with a visible windshield, windows, headlights, taillights, and a pair of wheels.

The 🚐 Minibus emoji represents a concise version of the usual bus, transporting lesser people. This emoji can suggest both private and public traveling; a public bus, a tourist bus, an office bus, etc.

How and when to use it

If you and a couple of friends or colleagues are heading out for a trip together, you could use 🚐 to indicate that this would be the best mode of transport for the excursion. The same applies even while suggesting that you have or you plan to book a minibus.
If you're in a minibus, or you're taking a minibus to reach a given destination, you can use 🚐 while texting someone about it.
Use 🚐 while sharing pictures and/or videos of modified minibusses - it can be a hardware modification or even a repainted vehicle.
In a similar framework as the first point, 🚐 can be used while asking someone or inviting someone on a road trip.
If you own a minibus or you just bought a new one, you can use 🚐 while sharing pictures of your minibus or even while implying that you're driving, will be driving and hence busy or any other such context.

Other Names

🚐 Microbus
🚐 Minivan
🚐 Omnibus
🚐 Small Bus
🚐 Mini Bus
🚐 Van
🚐 Tourist Bus
🚐 Excursion Bus
🚐 Jitney

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F690
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :minibus:
Keywords: bus, drive, minibus, van, vehicle

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.