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Ambulance Emoji 🚑

A white emergency vehicle with a red cross or stripe — that's the ambulance emoji. It's used for medical emergencies and trips to the ER, showing up in genuinely urgent contexts or, less seriously, as an exaggerated reaction to something painfully embarrassing.

What 🚑 means

A left-facing vehicle with a horizontally rectangular box at the hind section of the vehicle, attached to the driving section with a visible window, rearview mirror, a headlight, and a pair of wheels.

The 🚑 Ambulance emoji signifies an emergency. Closely associated with the 🏥 Hospital emoji, this emoji suggests rushing to the hospital, offering immediate medical assistance, and doing everything in its power to keep hope alive.

How and when to use it

In a casual context, 🚑 can be used to suggest the travel superlative -'rush', which is somehow connected to a hospital. For example, "Okay. Wow. Please excuse me, I need to rush to the hospital to get a new pair of eyes to see what you see in him 🚑".
If you're posting or reposting content related to COVID-19, such as free tests, routine checks, awareness, etc, you can use 🚑. For instance, "Compulsory COVID- 19 checks throughout the day tomorrow 🚑".
While sharing a grateful post dedicated to the ambulance and the ambulance workers who saved you or a loved one in time, you can use 🚑. Like, "If it wasn't for their timely arrival and vigilance, we would have lost her 🚑".
If you're a nurse and you're posting pictures of yourself; from a style POV, a good mood POV, or even a memorable image, you can use 🚑 in the post caption.
Use 🚑 in your social media profile name if you're an ambulance worker.

Other Names

🚑 EMS
🚑 Emergency Medical Service
🚑 Hospital Vehicle
🚑 Rescue
🚑 Hospital Transport
🚑 Hospital Wagon
🚑 Rushing to the Hospital

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F691
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :ambulance:
Keywords: ambulance, emergency, vehicle

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.