High-Speed Train with Bullet Nose 🚅
🚅 (U+1F685) is a standard Unicode character that you can copy and paste anywhere text is accepted. This page provides a concise reference with safe tips, internal links, and practical guidance so you can use it reliably across apps and platforms.
What it is and where it’s used: High-Speed Train with Bullet Nose is part of the Symbols family (block: Transport and Map Symbols). If you need styled or decorative alternatives, try our Fancy Text tool to generate compatible text that works in most modern interfaces.
History & usage: The symbol depicts HIGH-SPEED TRAIN WITH BULLET NOSE. It can indicate a train trip or travel plan in messages. It can mark rapid rail service or express transit in apps, chats, or alerts. It can flag rail updates in maps, itineraries, or schedules. Appearance varies across platforms, apps, and fonts, so keep context clear to avoid ambiguity. For accessibility, provide surrounding text that conveys the intended meaning, and use plain language to describe the symbol.
Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+1F685
in many development tools or editors. Some operating systems provide a character viewer or input palette that lets you search by name or code and insert the glyph into documents.
Display and fallback: if you see an empty box (tofu) or a placeholder rectangle, the active font might not include this codepoint. Switching to a font with broader Unicode coverage or using a fallback font usually fixes the issue. On the web, ensure the page’s font stack includes a general‑purpose fallback.
Related references: browse the Categories for similar characters. When choosing a symbol, prefer the official codepoint for semantic clarity and better compatibility with search, copy, and accessibility tooling.
See our category page for related symbols.
Technical details
- Codepoint:
U+1F685
- General Category:
So
- Age:
6.0
- Bidi Class:
ON
- Block:
Transport and Map Symbols
- Script:
Common
- UTF-8:
F0 9F 9A 85
- UTF-16:
D83D DE85
- UTF-32:
0001F685
- HTML dec:
🚅
- HTML hex:
🚅
- JS escape:
\u{1F685}
- Python \N{}:
\N{HIGH-SPEED TRAIN WITH BULLET NOSE}
- Python \U:
\U0001F685
- URL-encoded:
%F0%9F%9A%85
- CSS escape:
\1F685
How to type / insert
Fast copy: click the Copy button near the top of this page.
By codepoint: in many editors and IDEs, you can insert via the Unicode code U+1F685
or a built‑in character picker.
HTML: use the numeric entity 🚅
(hex) or 🚅
(decimal) when an HTML entity is needed.
Compatibility & troubleshooting
Font support: if the symbol does not render, the current font likely lacks this codepoint. Choose a font with broad Unicode coverage or allow a fallback font.
Web pages: ensure your CSS font stack includes a general fallback; avoid relying on images for common symbols to preserve accessibility and copyability.