Oncoming automobile Emoji

Travel

A head-on view of a passenger car, typically rendered in a shade of blue or purple, featuring a visible windshield, headlights, and a hood. The perspective suggests the vehicle is driving directly toward the viewer.

Usage Context

Used to discuss commuting, travel plans, or road trips. It is frequently sent as a quick update when someone is on their way or stuck in traffic. It pairs well with other transport icons like 🚗 for a side-view perspective or 🚦 to represent the journey itself.

History

This emoji arrived in the Unicode standard as part of the early mobile character sets developed in Japan. It was designed to help users quickly communicate their physical location or proximity during the rise of text-messaging culture.

Details

Glyph

🚘

Unicode

U+1F698

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f698:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE98;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-ground

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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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