🚗Automobile Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 🚗 emoji, they’re just saying they’re going to drive or that they like cars. It’s usually a straightforward way to express that.
The 🚗 emoji represents a car.
- Unicode
- U+1F697
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :car:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🚗 Automobile emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Automobile emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F697 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your automobile looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Automobile emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :car:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F697.
How to type the 🚗 Automobile emoji
No picker to hand? The automobile can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Automobile emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the automobile 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
Automobile emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around automobile 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 automobile lands changes how it is taken.
🚗 vs 🚘 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Automobile
Code: U+1F697 · added 2010
Shortcode: :car:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🚗 emoji, they’re just saying they’re going to drive or that they like cars.
Unicode name: Oncoming Automobile
Code: U+1F698 · added 2014
Shortcode: :oncoming_automobile:
Generally, it just means a car.
Where the 🚗 Automobile 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+1F697 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 E01B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Automobile was approved as U+1F697 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.