U+1F687 Metro
U+1F687 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as subway and underground train.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F687 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character โmetroโ for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: subway.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be called a subway, tube, or underground. Unlike buses or trams, rapid transit systems are railways, usually electric, that operate on an exclusive right-of-way, which cannot be accessed by pedestrians or other vehicles. They are often grade-separated in tunnels or on elevated railways.
Modern services on rapid transit systems are provided on designated lines between stations typically using electric multiple units on railway tracks. Some systems use guided rubber tires, magnetic levitation (maglev), or monorail. The stations typically have high platforms, without steps inside the trains, requiring custom-made trains in order to minimize gaps between train and platform. They are typically integrated with other public transport and often operated by the same public transport authorities. Some rapid transit systems have at-grade intersections between a rapid transit line and a road or between two rapid transit lines.
The world's first rapid transit system was the partially underground Metropolitan Railway which opened in 1863 using steam locomotives, and now forms part of the London Underground. In 1868, New York opened the elevated West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, initially a cable-hauled line using static steam engines.
As of 2021, China has the largest number of rapid transit systems in the worldโ40 in number, running on over 4,500ย km (2,800ย mi) of trackโand was responsible for most of the world's rapid-transit expansion in the 2010s. The world's longest single-operator rapid transit system by route length is the Shanghai Metro. The world's largest single rapid transit service provider by number of stations (472 stations in total) is the New York City Subway. The busiest rapid transit systems in the world by annual ridership are the Shanghai Metro, Tokyo subway system, Seoul Metro and the Moscow Metro.
Representations
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Nยบ | 128647 |
UTF-8 | F0 9F 9A 87 |
UTF-16 | D8 3D DE 87 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 F6 87 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%9A%87 |
HTML hex reference | 🚇 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | รฐลธลกโก |
alias | subway |
alias | underground train |
Elsewhere
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