Travel & Places · Emoji 0.7
🚘Oncoming Automobile Emoji
Generally, it just means a car. People use it to talk about driving, cars in general, or when they’re on the road.
The 🚘 emoji represents a car, specifically one moving towards you.
- Unicode
- U+1F698
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :oncoming_
automobile: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🚘 Oncoming Automobile emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
02 — Platforms
Oncoming Automobile emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the oncoming automobile has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Oncoming Automobile emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :oncoming_automobile:.
All emoji copy and paste →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+1F698.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🚘 Oncoming Automobile emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Oncoming Automobile 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Oncoming Automobile emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around oncoming automobile for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🚘 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 🚘 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
🚘 vs 🚗 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Oncoming Automobile
Code: U+1F698 · added 2014
Shortcode: :oncoming_automobile:
Generally, it just means a car.
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.
11 — History
Where the 🚘 Oncoming Automobile emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F698 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 Automobile was approved as U+1F698 and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). 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.
12 — FAQ