Aerial Tramway Emoji
Aerial Tramway
The emoji is part of the Unicode Standard, specifically Unicode 6.0, and was approved in 2010.
🚡
Mountain Cableway Emoji
Part of Unicode 6.0, approved in 2010. Its official Unicode name is "Mountain Cableway."
🚠
About Aerial Tramway Emoji
The 🚡 emoji, officially known as the "Aerial Tramway" emoji. The Aerial Tramway emoji depicts a cable car or gondola, typically used in mountainous areas or tourist attractions for transportation with scenic views. It shows a cabin suspended from cables, often against a backdrop suggesting elevation.
Visually, the emoji typically shows a single passenger cabin hanging from a thick cable. The color and style of the tram car can vary slightly across different platforms and devices (like Apple, Google, Samsung, etc.), but it generally remains recognizable as an aerial lift system.
This emoji is commonly used to represent travel, tourism, skiing, mountainous regions, or cable car rides. It might appear in contexts like discussing vacations, outdoor adventures, or specific locations with famous tramways (e.g., Sandia Peak Tramway or Table Mountain Aerial Cableway).
It often grouped with other transport-related emojis like 🚠 (Mountain Cableway), 🏔️ (Snow-Capped Mountain), or 🚞 (Mountain Railway).
Unicode and Introduction
The Aerial Tramway emoji is represented by the Unicode point U+1F6A1. It was first added to Unicode in version 6.0 in 2010 and later officially recognized as an emoji in Unicode version 8.0 (Emoji version 1.0) in 2015.