Automobile Emoji

Travel

A side-facing view of a classic red sedan. The design typically features a rounded frame, a visible window, and two wheels, mirroring the standard silhouette of a passenger vehicle.

Usage Context

This is the go-to icon for anything related to road trips, commuting, or traffic updates. It is frequently used to discuss travel plans or to signal that someone is on their way. You will often see it paired with the 🚦 for traffic mentions or 🛣️ when someone is posting about a long drive.

History

The automobile emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It draws its lineage from early Japanese mobile carrier sets, which utilized small pixelated graphics to help users quickly identify modes of transport in SMS messages before high-resolution displays became the norm.

Details

Glyph

🚗

Unicode

U+1F697

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f697:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE97;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-ground

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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