The car emoji is Automobile, U+1F697, and Copy above takes it: car emoji copy and paste in one press. No emoji is named plain car. The 83 tiles below add eight more cars, trucks, plain-text road signs and text cars.
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Find the car you meant
Search knows Unicode's names and search words, plus everyday ones. Cab finds both taxis, truck finds four tiles and chariot finds four. Van finds three, Minibus first. Suv finds Sport utility vehicle, whose character is still named recreational vehicle.
Old phones and missing fonts
Automobile, Taxi, Police car and the SUV date from Emoji 0.6, the oldest version. Pickup truck came in Emoji 13.0 and Wheel in 14.0, and an older phone shows an empty box for those. θ» and the one-line cars are ordinary text and take the colour of your words. The racing car sprites and the xiangqi chariots need a font that has them.
Tips
For car symbol copy and paste that takes the colour of your text, use β, β or β: they are characters, not emoji.
A text style tile is the same emoji followed by a selector that asks for plain text. The font has the last say.
The steering wheel, the key and the speedometer are ASCII, 24 columns at most. In a font that is not monospaced, the rims bend.
Questions and answers
What is the car emoji called?
Automobile. Unicode's emoji list, version 18.0, has no emoji named car: six names hold the word, among them Racing car, Police car and Tram car. CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files car under 16 emoji, the aerial tramway among them.
Is there a sports car emoji?
Not by that name. The nearest is Racing car, U+1F3CE, from Emoji 0.7: Unicode's note on the character reads race car, and CLDR lists zoom for it and for no other emoji. It has a text style, in the plain-text row.
Is there an electric car emoji?
No. CLDR lists electric for five emoji, and the only vehicle among them is Railway car. This page's workaround is the combo Electric car, near enough: Automobile followed by Electric plug. Search electric to find both.
Is there a truck emoji?
Three. Delivery truck dates from Emoji 0.6, Articulated lorry from 1.0 and Pickup truck from 13.0. CLDR lists truck for those and for Fire engine. β Black truck is the plain-text one: Unicode's notes call it black lorry and point to the delivery truck.
πAutomobileU+1F697. The car. Unicode never calls it that: the name is automobile, and CLDR supplies car, driving and vehicle. It has no text style. Emoji 0.6.
πOncoming automobileU+1F698. The car coming towards you. It has a text style, which is in the plain-text row. Emoji 0.7.
πOncoming police carU+1F694. The patrol car coming towards you. It has a text style. Emoji 0.7.
πOncoming taxiU+1F696. The taxi coming towards you. CLDR lists hail. Emoji 1.0.
π»Pickup truckU+1F6FB. The newest of the nine cars. CLDR lists automobile and car for it, and flatbed. Emoji 13.0.
πPolice carU+1F693. CLDR lists cops and patrol. Emoji 0.6.
ποΈRacing carU+1F3CE U+FE0F. Unicode's note on the character reads race car. CLDR lists zoom for it and for no other emoji. It has a text style. Emoji 0.7.
πSport utility vehicleU+1F699. The SUV. The character under it is still named recreational vehicle, which is a different thing to most people. Emoji 0.6.
πTaxiU+1F695. CLDR lists cab, cabbie and yellow. Emoji 0.6.
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Vans, trucks and the rest of the traffic 7
πArticulated lorryU+1F69B. The big one. CLDR lists semi, lorry and move. Emoji 1.0.
πΊAuto rickshawU+1F6FA. Three wheels. Unicode's note on the character reads tuk-tuk, remorque. Emoji 12.0.
πBusU+1F68C. CLDR lists school for it. Emoji 0.6.
πDelivery truckU+1F69A. CLDR lists car for it, and delivery. Unicode's notes point from it to the black truck in the plain-text row. Emoji 0.6.
πMinibusU+1F690. The nearest emoji to a van: CLDR lists van and drive. Emoji 1.0.
ποΈMotorcycleU+1F3CD U+FE0F. Unicode names the character racing motorcycle. Emoji 0.7.
πTractorU+1F69C. Slow, and in front of you. Emoji 1.0.
Wheels, fuel and the road 12
βοΈChainsU+26D3 U+FE0F. A road sign in disguise: Unicode's note on the character reads tyre chains required. Emoji 0.7.
πChequered flagU+1F3C1. CLDR lists race, racing and finish. Emoji 0.6.
π§ConstructionU+1F6A7. CLDR lists barrier. Filed on the same shelf as the cars, transport on the ground. Emoji 0.6.
π¨Dashing awayU+1F4A8. The exhaust, or the dust. CLDR lists fast, gone and smoke. Emoji 0.6.
πElectric plugU+1F50C. For the electric car Unicode does not have. CLDR lists electric for five emoji, and the only vehicle among them is Railway car. Emoji 0.6.
β½Fuel pumpU+26FD. Unicode's notes on the character read petrol station, gas station. CLDR lists diesel as well. Emoji 0.6.
πKeyU+1F511. CLDR lists keys and unlock. Emoji 0.6.
π£οΈMotorwayU+1F6E3 U+FE0F. The only emoji CLDR files under road. It lists highway too. Emoji 0.7.
π ΏοΈP buttonU+1F17F U+FE0F. The only emoji CLDR files under parking. Emoji 0.6.
πStop signU+1F6D1. Unicode names the character octagonal sign. Emoji 3.0.
π¦Vertical traffic lightU+1F6A6. CLDR lists stoplight, signal and intersection. Emoji 1.0.
πWheelU+1F6DE. The newest tile on this page. CLDR lists car and vehicle for it, and it is the only emoji filed under tire. Emoji 14.0.
Car symbols in plain text 16
βAlternate one-way trafficU+26D5 Alternate one-way left way traffic. Unicode's note reads left side traffic: the set was drawn for roads that drive on the left.
βDisabled carU+26CD Disabled car. A car that is a character and not an emoji: a breakdown, going by the name. Unicode's heading over it reads traffic signs from ARIB STD B24.
βDrive slow signU+26DA Drive slow sign. The name is the whole of what Unicode says about it.
β½οΈFuel pump, text styleU+26FD U+FE0E. Fuel pump, followed by the selector that asks for plain text. The pump as a plain sign, the way a road atlas prints it.
βHelm symbolU+2388 Helm symbol. A ship's wheel from the keyboard symbols, and the nearest plain character to a steering wheel. Unicode's note reads control.
ποΈOncoming automobile, text styleU+1F698 U+FE0E. Oncoming automobile, followed by the selector that asks for plain text. The nearest thing Unicode has to a car symbol that takes the colour of your words. The font has the last say.
ποΈOncoming police car, text styleU+1F694 U+FE0E. Oncoming police car, followed by the selector that asks for plain text. The patrol car as a symbol.
π²Racing car sprite, pointing leftU+1CC97 Left-pointing racing car. The same sprite facing the other way. It needs the same font.
π²Racing car sprite, pointing rightU+1CC99 Right-pointing racing car. One of six racing cars Unicode files under game sprites, in its symbols for legacy computing. It shows as an empty box where no font has them.
ποΈRacing car, text styleU+1F3CE U+FE0E. Racing car, followed by the selector that asks for plain text. A race car as a symbol. The font has the last say here too.
θͺεθ»Automobile in Japanese: automatic movement plus vehicle
θ»Car, as a Han characterU+8ECA CJK unified ideograph-8ECA. Unihan defines it as cart, vehicle, read chΔ in Mandarin and kuruma in Japanese. Wiktionary gives a car for the Japanese word, and narrowly an automobile.
车Car, simplifiedU+8F66 CJK unified ideograph-8F66. The simplified form of the character before it, by Unihan's variant fields. Same meaning: cart, vehicle.
βΎCart radicalU+2F9E Kangxi radical cart. Radical 159 of the Kangxi dictionary, as a character of its own. It looks the same as the car character and is a different code point.
πChariot, as a hieroglyphU+1331D Egyptian hieroglyph T017. Unicode's description of the sign is two words long: a chariot. It needs a font with the hieroglyphs.
θΌCounter for vehiclesU+8F1B CJK unified ideograph-8F1B. Unihan calls it a numerary adjunct for vehicles, and Wiktionary lists it as the measure word for a car in Mandarin.
δΏ₯Rickshaw, as a Han characterU+4FE5 CJK unified ideograph-4FE5. Unihan defines it as rickshaw, cart, vehicle, and as the name of a piece in Chinese chess. Unicode's notes say the red chariot sometimes shows this one.
θΌͺWheel, as a Han characterU+8F2A CJK unified ideograph-8F2A. Unihan defines it as wheel; revolve, turn; recur. The car character is its left half.
πWheeled chariot, Linear BU+100CC Linear b ideogram B240 wheeled chariot. An ideogram from the Linear B tablets, filed beside a chariot frame and a wheel. It needs a font that has Linear B.
One-line text cars and road lines 13
[βββ]Traffic light on its side, one lamp lit
β·βΊβΊβ β·βΊβΊβ BEEP BEEP, every letter in a wheel
β β β β β β βBroken centre line, for a divider
β β β π β β βThe car emoji on the same centre line
βββ£β£β£ββHeadlights and a grille, from the front
π½π΄π π²π°π NEW CAR in squared letters, like a plate
οΌΆοΌ²οΌ―οΌ―οΌVROOM in fullwidth letters
0 βββββ βββ 8Rev counter, climbing to eight
oΝ‘oBubble car: two wheels under one roof
β‘ oΝ‘oBubble car with speed lines behind it
oΝ‘o oΝ‘o oΝ‘o oΝ‘oTraffic jam of four bubble cars
β β β oΝ‘o β β βBubble car on a broken centre line
oΜΝ‘β‘oΛΜΆThe classic one-line text car
ASCII drawings from the driver's seat 3
Car keyA round bow with a hole for the ring, and two teeth on the blade. Plain ASCII, 24 columns wide.
SpeedometerThe needle sits just past 60. Type over the numbers for kilometres. Plain ASCII, 19 columns wide.
Steering wheelThree spokes and a horn button. Plain ASCII, 18 columns wide.
Car combos 14
ππ§Όπ¦Car washAutomobile, then soap, then sweat droplets. Soap arrived in Emoji 11.0, so an older phone washes with water only.
ππ₯πΏDrive-inAutomobile, then movie camera, then popcorn. CLDR lists movie for the camera and the popcorn.
ππElectric car, near enoughAutomobile, then electric plug. Unicode has no electric car, so the plug goes after the car.
πππ§Flat tyreAutomobile, then wheel, then wrench. Wheel is from Emoji 14.0. CLDR lists spanner for the wrench.
β½πFuel stopFuel pump, then automobile. Unicode's notes on the pump read petrol station, gas station.
ππ¨GoneAutomobile, then dashing away. CLDR lists gone and fast for the second one.
ππβ¨New car dayKey, then automobile, then sparkles. Keys first.
π ΏοΈπParkedP button, then automobile. The P button is the only emoji CLDR files under parking.
πβ πPassed the driving testAutomobile, then check mark button, then party popper. CLDR lists driving for the car and done for the tick.
ποΈππRace dayRacing car, then chequered flag, then trophy. CLDR lists racing for the car and the flag, and win for the flag and the cup.
ππ£οΈπRoad tripAutomobile, then motorway, then sunrise over mountains. Motorway is the only emoji CLDR files under road.
ππ«πSchool runAutomobile, then school, then backpack. CLDR lists school for the backpack too.
πππππTraffic jamAutomobile, then sport utility vehicle, then taxi, then bus, then automobile. Five vehicles, nose to tail.
π¦πβ³Waiting at the lightsVertical traffic light, then automobile, then hourglass not done. CLDR lists waiting for the hourglass.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-20, not typed by hand. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. No emoji in that file is named car: the car is U+1F697, automobile, Emoji 0.6, in the group Travel & Places, subgroup transport-ground, between oncoming taxi and oncoming automobile. Six names hold the word car. The search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch). CLDR lists automobile, car, driving and vehicle for the automobile, car for 16 emoji, zoom for the racing car only, road for the motorway only, parking for the P button only, tire for the wheel only, truck for four emoji and electric for five, of which the only vehicle is the railway car. The text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). Of the nine cars, three have a text form there: oncoming automobile, racing car and oncoming police car. Automobile has none. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. The character names (RECREATIONAL VEHICLE for the SUV, RACING MOTORCYCLE, OCTAGONAL SIGN), the notes quoted for the racing car, the auto rickshaw, the fuel pump, the chains, the traffic signs, the helm symbol, the cart radical and the two xiangqi chariots, and the headings Traffic signs from ARIB STD B24 and Game sprites come from NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). None of the plain-text characters has a line in emoji-test.txt. The meanings of the Han characters are the kDefinition values of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip); the readings of U+8ECA are its kMandarin and kJapaneseKun values, the simplified form is its kSimplifiedVariant and the radical of U+8F2A is its kRSUnicode value. The senses of the words come from Wiktionary, read on 2026-09-20: U+8ECA (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BB%8A), U+6C7D U+8ECA (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%B1%BD%E8%BB%8A) and U+81EA U+52D5 U+8ECA (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%87%AA%E5%8B%95%E8%BB%8A). The description of the chariot hieroglyph is the kEH_Desc value of Unikemet.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unikemet.txt). One of the 13 one-line pieces (U+006F U+0304 U+0361 U+2261 U+006F U+02DE U+0336) follows a pattern long passed around as anonymous text art, assembled here from character names. The other 12, the 3 ASCII drawings and the 14 combos are this site's own work. No make, model or brand is named or drawn. The Unicode and CLDR files were checked on 2026-09-19 and Wiktionary on 2026-09-20. Licence: own work, except one of the 13 one-line cars, which follows a long-standing anonymous text art pattern (named in the source note above)