Ambulance Emoji

Travel

A white emergency vehicle featuring a red cross on its side and a flashing light on the roof. The vehicle is depicted facing right, signaling it is in transit to provide urgent medical aid.

Usage Context

Used to signal a medical emergency, request help, or indicate that someone is on their way to a hospital. It is frequently sent alongside 🏥 to highlight a medical destination or 🚨 to emphasize the urgency of the situation.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0, this icon was adopted from early Japanese cellular carrier sets that included transport and public service pictograms to assist users in communicating travel and safety information.

Details

Glyph

🚑

Unicode

U+1F691

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f691:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE91;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-ground

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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