🚖
What 🚖 means
The front panel of a taxi, shown with the windshield, a 'Taxi' board on the roof (the letters aren't visible), a pair of headlights and rearview mirrors, and two pairs of wheels.
The 🚖 Oncoming Taxi emoji represents an arriving taxi, cab, Uber, anything. It suggests that your ride is here, you're ready to go, you're getting into a taxi or even stuck in traffic.
How and when to use it
- If you're Uber is finally here after all the confusion, you can use 🚖 to let that person you're texting know that you got to go.
- If you're trying to take a taxi on an impossible Monday, use 🚖 while texting a colleague, a friend, or even while sharing a social media story of the same. For example, "Mondays coming down on everyone hard be like. Not a single taxi that wants to take me to work 🚖".
- You could also use 🚖 to indicate that you're on the way. Like, "Be there in 20 🚖".
- Using 🚖 in any context is a direct reference that you've taken a taxi/cab.
- 🚖 can also be used in the framework of being in a cab and stuck in traffic. For example, "So, so, so, sorry. This is an unexpected jam. I'll be there ASAP 🚖".
Other Names
- 🚖 Arriving Taxi
- 🚖 Your Ride is Here
- 🚖 Arriving Uber
- 🚖 Taxicab
- 🚖 Cab
- 🚖 Take a Taxi
- 🚖 Taxi Stuck in Traffic
At a glance
- Category
- Travel & Places › transport-ground
- Codepoints
U+1F696- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:oncoming_taxi:- Keywords
- cab, cabbie, cars, drove, hail, oncoming, taxi, yellow
How it looks across platforms
