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Oncoming Bus Emoji 🚍

Same bus, different angle: it faces the viewer head-on instead of showing its side the way 🚌 Bus does. The meaning doesn't shift — public transit, a commute, a school run — it just exists to give a text a second direction to point a bus in.

What 🚍 means

Seen head-on, this bus has a rectangular windscreen, a pair of headlights at the bottom, rearview mirrors on either side, and a vent in between. There seem to be two pairs of wheels underneath the bus.

The 🚍 Oncoming Bus emoji suggests a bus that's in front of the viewer. So, it can signify an arriving bus or even a speeding bus. On a general note, this emoji can represent bus travel and public commute.

How and when to use it

While texting someone that your bus is here or you gotta go, you can use 🚍. For example, "Okay. I'll text you when I get there. Gotta rush now 🚍".
If you're sharing a news post that features the face of the bus, you may want to use 🚍 in the caption as it best suits the context.
If you're texting someone about a speeding bus, or an irresponsible bus (essentially, the driver, but let's not throw blame), 🚍 is your guest. The front focus of this emoji acts as a great emoji description to animate this particular scenario.
If you revamped your bus and you're either posting those pictures on social media or sending the same to a close someone, you can use 🚍. This holds good even while reposting pictures/videos of a modified bus.
If you're sharing inspirational stories about a particular bus driver, a bus franchise, or many buses in general, use 🚍.

Other Names

🚍 Speeding Bus
🚍 Arriving Bus
🚍 Bus Arrival
🚍 Public Bus
🚍 School Bus
🚍 Tourist Bus
🚍 Office Bus

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F68D
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :oncoming_bus:
Keywords: bus, cars, oncoming

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.