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

&#xD83D;&#xDE96;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-ground

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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

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