police car
Places
What it means when sent
A police car. The light bar and body follow the American pattern, so readers elsewhere do not recognise their own forceโs car, and it also gets sent jokingly as โIโm reporting thisโ.
- Code point
- U+1F693
- 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?
A police car. The light bar and body follow the American pattern, so readers elsewhere do not recognise their own forceโs car, and it also gets sent jokingly as โIโm reporting thisโ.
QWhat is its official name?
Unicode calls it police car, code point U+1F693. It sits under Places.
QDoes it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes โ though every vendor draws it slightly differently.