car
Places
What it means when sent
The official name is โautomobileโ, usually drawn as a red car seen head-on. It means driving, a trip, โon my wayโ; its near-twin ๐ differs in the angle of the drawing more than in the kind of car.
Official name vs. real use
The name Unicode gave it and the way people use it are not the same. If you searched your way here, the second one is usually what you were after.
- Official name
- automobile
- What people call it
- car
- Code point
- U+1F697
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Place emoji show the country that drew them. โฉ๏ธ is a Shinto gate and stands for Japan itself, and ๐ผ is Tokyo Tower, not the Eiffel Tower.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere โ it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
- Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (๐, ๐ ).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare ๐ reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking โ they are usually stripped from the result.
- Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.
Common questions
QWhat does ๐ mean?
The official name is โautomobileโ, usually drawn as a red car seen head-on. It means driving, a trip, โon my wayโ; its near-twin ๐ differs in the angle of the drawing more than in the kind of car.
QWhat is its official name?
Unicode calls it automobile, code point U+1F697. It sits under Places.
QDoes it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes โ though every vendor draws it slightly differently.