🚑Ambulance Emoji
Generally, the 🚑 emoji means “I’m here to help” or “Let me take care of that. ” It’s used to signal something needs urgent attention or support.
The 🚑 emoji is an ambulance.
- Unicode
- U+1F691
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :ambulance:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🚑 Ambulance emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Ambulance emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F691. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Ambulance emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :ambulance:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the ambulance, code point U+1F691.
How to type the 🚑 Ambulance emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Ambulance emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the ambulance as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Ambulance emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ambulance for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🚑, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🚑 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🚑 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the ambulance lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🚑 Ambulance emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F691 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🚑 existed there as
KDDI au EAE0, SoftBank E431.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Ambulance was approved as U+1F691 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🚑 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.