Locomotive (steam train) 🚂

How to read it

🚂 is U+1F682, named STEAM LOCOMOTIVE in the Unicode Standard and locomotive in Unicode’s emoji lists. Unicode’s proposals chart traces it to “Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji” (L2/09-114), a document from the Irish and German national bodies. The character was approved in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, but Unicode’s emoji data labels it E1.0, because the label records when a character was first defined in Unicode’s emoji data files, which for 🚂 was Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Emojipedia describes it as a steam train, powered by coal or wood, and says it may also be used to show support for a cause or trend, encouraging others to “get on board” with an idea, or to say someone is joining the “hype train”. Unicode’s keywords are caboose, engine, locomotive, railway, steam, train, trains and travel.

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Which train is which

Unicode has several train emoji, and 🚂 is the only steam engine. 🚆 train, from Emoji 1.0, has the keywords arrived, choo and railway. 🚃 railway car is a carriage, with keywords such as tram and trolleybus. 🚄 high-speed train and 🚅 bullet train (named HIGH-SPEED TRAIN WITH BULLET NOSE in the chart) are the fast trains. Unicode’s chart cross-refers 🚂 to 🛲 diesel locomotive.