Wheel Emoji

Travel

A dark, rubber-textured tire mounted on a metallic, multi-spoke rim. It represents the standard automotive wheel used on cars, trucks, and other road-going vehicles.

Usage Context

Used to discuss automotive maintenance, road trips, or the act of driving. It frequently appears alongside emojis like 🚗 or 🏎️ to denote transportation or mechanical repairs. It can also figuratively refer to the idea of 'being behind the wheel' or taking control of a situation.

History

The wheel emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2021 as part of Emoji 14.0. Its inclusion came after years of users relying on generic transportation icons, providing a specific way to reference vehicle hardware in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

🛞

Unicode

U+1F6DE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6de:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEDE;

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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