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Oncoming Taxi Emoji 🚖

New York yellow on most platforms, this cab comes straight at the viewer rather than showing its side the way 🚕 Taxi does, same taxi from a different angle. Hailing a cab and airport pickups cover the literal use, while the figurative one leans on rescue, timing, or getting picked up right when it matters.

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

The lowdown

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

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.