Oncoming taxi Emoji
Travel
A yellow taxicab shown from a direct front-facing perspective, clearly displaying its headlights and grill. It looks like a standard city vehicle catching your eye as it approaches in traffic.
Usage Context
Used to signal that a ride is arriving, to request a car, or to discuss urban transportation. People frequently use it when waiting for an app-based ride, often pairing it with 🚕 to show the transition from requesting a cab to its arrival.
History
This emoji was added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It reflects the widespread transition toward mobile-based ride-hailing services, which changed how people interact with city street traffic compared to the traditional street-hail methods of the past.
Details
Glyph
🚖
Unicode
U+1F696
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f696:
HTML Entity
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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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