🚖Oncoming Taxi Emoji
Generally, it just means “a taxi” or “a ride. ” People use it to indicate they’re expecting a taxi, or to talk about transportation in general.
The 🚖 emoji is an oncoming taxi.
- Unicode
- U+1F696
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :oncoming_taxi:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🚖 Oncoming Taxi emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 8 of them.
Oncoming Taxi emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the oncoming taxi as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Oncoming Taxi emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :oncoming_taxi:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F696.
How to type the 🚖 Oncoming Taxi emoji
No picker to hand? The oncoming taxi can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Oncoming Taxi emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Oncoming Taxi emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around oncoming 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
Who sent the oncoming taxi and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🚖 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F696, 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: Oncoming Taxi
Code: U+1F696 · added 2015
Shortcode: :oncoming_taxi:
Generally, it just means “a taxi” or “a ride.
Unicode name: Taxi
Code: U+1F695 · added 2010
Shortcode: :taxi:
Generally, the 🚕 emoji means someone needs or wants a taxi ride.
Where the 🚖 Oncoming Taxi emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the oncoming taxi has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F696 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.
Oncoming Taxi was approved as U+1F696 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.