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🚖Oncoming Taxi Emoji
Unicode added 🚖 oncoming taxi in Emoji 1.0 (2015), filed under Travel & Places → Ground Transportation. Its codepoint is U+1F696, and it is tagged cab, cabbie and cars.
What 🚖 oncoming taxi means
The largest travel family, and lopsided: more than a dozen separate rail characters survive from the Japanese carrier sets, including 🚝 monorail, 🚞 mountain railway and 🚋 tram car, which almost nobody sends. Daily use concentrates on 🚗 and 🚕 for getting somewhere, 🚨 for urgency or an announcement, and 🚧 for anything unfinished. 🦽 and 🦼 came later, in Emoji 12.0's accessibility batch.
Unicode tags this one cab, cabbie and cars and files it under Travel & Places → Ground Transportation.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F696 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🚖 | |
| HTML decimal | 🚖 | |
| CSS | \1F696 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F696} | |
| Python | \U0001F696 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE96 | |
| Rust | \u{1f696} | |
| Swift | \u{1F696} | |
| PHP | \u{1F696} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%9A%96 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 9A 96 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE96 | |
| Base64 | 8J+alg== | |
| Decimal | 128662 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🚖
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “oncoming taxi”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “cab”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f696and Enter. - HTML — paste
🚖.
How 🚖 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🚖Apple
- 🚖Segoe
- 🚖Noto
- 🚖System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🚖 oncoming taxi emoji mean?+
🚖 is the oncoming taxi emoji, tagged cab, cabbie and cars. The largest travel family, and lopsided: more than a dozen separate rail characters survive from the Japanese carrier sets, including 🚝 monorail, 🚞 mountain railway and 🚋 tram car, which almost nobody sends. Daily use concentrates on 🚗 and 🚕 for getting somewhere, 🚨 for urgency or an announcement, and 🚧 for anything unfinished. 🦽 and 🦼 came later, in Emoji 12.0's accessibility batch.
What is the Unicode code for 🚖?+
oncoming taxi is U+1F696. In HTML that is 🚖, in CSS \1F696, and in JavaScript \u{1F696}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🚖 emoji added?+
oncoming taxi got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Ground Transportation in Travel & Places.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🚖 oncoming taxi.