🚕Taxi Emoji
Generally, the 🚕 emoji means someone needs or wants a taxi ride. It’s a quick way to say “I need a cab” or “Let’s get a ride.
The 🚕 emoji represents a taxi or cab.
- Unicode
- U+1F695
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :taxi:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🚕 Taxi emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
Taxi emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the taxi has been drawn in 4 ways.
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.
Taxi emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :taxi:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F695.
How to type the 🚕 Taxi emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Taxi emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the taxi 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
Taxi emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around taxi 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
Chat apps do not change U+1F695, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🚕 vs 🚖 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Taxi
Code: U+1F695 · added 2010
Shortcode: :taxi:
Generally, the 🚕 emoji means someone needs or wants a taxi ride.
Unicode name: Oncoming Taxi
Code: U+1F696 · added 2015
Shortcode: :oncoming_taxi:
Generally, it just means “a taxi” or “a ride.
Where the 🚕 Taxi 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+1F695 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
NTT DoCoMo E65E, KDDI au E4B1, SoftBank E15A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Taxi was approved as U+1F695 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.