U+1F6A1 "🚡" Aerial Tramway Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F6A1 "🚡" Aerial Tramway is an ideographic symbol representing an aerial tram system, where a suspended car or cabin is transported along cables between two points, typically ascending a mountain or crossing a valley. This pictogram is part of the Transport and Map Symbols block and was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 with the release of version 6.0, originally intended for use in digital maps, transit signage, and communication about cable cars. The character depicts a small cabin hanging from a thick overhead cable, often shown with supporting towers at each end, and is commonly used in text messages, social media posts, and travel apps to indicate a tramway station or a scenic funicular route.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F6A1 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Aerial Tramway |
| Block | Transport and Map Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🚡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🚡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDEA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F6A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udea1 |