Headlights toward the viewer this time, the head-on match to 🚗 Automobile's side-on view, otherwise the same generic car underneath. It stands for driving, road trips, and cars in general, with the forward-facing angle giving texts a second option rather than changing what the emoji actually means.
What 🚘 means
A front-facing red car with a curved roof and bonnet (or hood), a wide and rectangular windscreen, a pair of rearview mirrors, headlights, a bumper, and a pair of black wheels.
The 🚘 Oncoming Automobile emoji signifies a car that's arriving, a speeding car, driving, traffic, and a sense that this automobile is reaching a particular person or venue.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting someone or posting a social media story that you're being picked up or dropped off by someone (someone familiar, of course), use 🚘. For instance, "It's all good, man. Dad's coming to pick me up from the train station 🚘. RELAX".
- If you just witnessed a speeding car, you can use 🚘 while telling someone about that atrocious speed or even while sharing a social media story of the same.
- If you own a car, you could use 🚘 to indicate "I'm on my way 🚘".
- If you're planning to take your car to a particular place, you could just drop 🚘 into any framework for an immediate conclusion that you're taking a four-wheeler. Like, "Give me half an hour, I'll be there 🚘".
- Generally, 🚘 can be used while posting or reposting a car ad or just pictures of your new automobile.
Other Names
- 🚘 Arriving Car
- 🚘 Speeding Car
- 🚘 Front of the Car
- 🚘 Driving
- 🚘 Stuck in Traffic in a Car
- 🚘 Taking the Car
- 🚘 Driving a Four-Wheeler
- 🚘 Car
- 🚘 Automobile
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › transport-ground
- Codepoints
U+1F698- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:oncoming_automobile:- Keywords
- automobile, car, cars, drove, oncoming, 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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🚘 Oncoming Automobile or 📼 Videocassette?