Bus 🚌

A straightforward side-profile illustration of a bus—typically rendered in blue, white, or yellow with a long rectangular body, multiple windows, wheels, and a front grille. Most platforms show the bus facing left or right, capturing its characteristic boxy shape and passenger-carrying design.

The bus emoji is one of the most universally recognized transit symbols and covers everything from school buses to city buses to long-distance coaches. People use it to discuss daily commutes, road trips, public transportation, or literally catching a bus. It's casual and direct, making it perfect for quick "heading to the bus stop" messages or planning group travel.

In messaging, the bus often appears alongside location pins, clocks, or directional emoji when coordinating meetups. School bus connotations appear in back-to-school contexts, though the generic bus emoji doesn't specifically show the classic yellow school bus look.

Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 0.6 in 2010, this emoji has been foundational to the travel and transit category from the earliest days of emoji messaging.