Taxi Emoji

Travel

A bright yellow car shown from the side, modeled after the classic, boxy sedan used as a taxicab in urban environments. It features a distinct checkerboard stripe or roof sign to indicate it is for hire.

Usage Context

Used to signal that you are currently in transit, heading to an airport, or waiting for a ride-sharing service like Uber or Lyft. It is frequently sent as a location update when traveling to a meetup, often paired with 📍 or 🏠.

History

Part of the original Japanese emoji sets designed for mobile carriers in the late 1990s, the design was heavily inspired by the iconic yellow cabs of New York City, which had become a global shorthand for the city-dwelling lifestyle in movies and television.

Details

Glyph

🚕

Unicode

U+1F695

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f695:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE95;

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

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