| Emoji | 🚖 |
| Name | oncoming taxi |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F696 |
| Category | Travel & Places |
| Subcategory | Transport Ground |
| Emoji Version | 1 |
| Tags | cab, cabbie, cars, drove, hail, oncoming, taxi, yellow |
| Decimal Value | 128662 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F696 |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🚖 / 🚖 |
The oncoming taxi emoji represents a place, building, mode of transportation, or geographic feature, commonly used in travel planning conversations, location-tagged social posts, or figuratively to signal a trip, vacation, or "getting away" theme.
Category context: The Travel & Places category includes buildings, geographic features, transportation, and sky/weather symbols — frequently used both literally (trip planning, location-sharing) and as visual shorthand for travel-related content and social posts.
Cataloged under Transport Ground within the Travel & Places category, oncoming taxi is the 183rd of 219 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 1 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F696.
💡 Good to know: Sky and weather emoji from this category are commonly used for literal weather updates in casual messaging, as a quick alternative to typing out conditions.