The fire truck emoji is 🚒, U+1F692, from Emoji 0.6. Unicode names it Fire engine and lists it between Ambulance and Police car; CLDR files it under engine, fire and truck.
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Truck or engine
Both. By Wikipedia, fire engine is the term in British, Irish and Commonwealth English and fire truck in North America, though some fire departments use the two for separate kinds of vehicle. The emoji takes no side: the fire engine emoji and the fire truck one are this same tile.
The truck inside the firefighter
Firefighter is not a character of its own in Unicode’s list. It is a sequence: Person, an invisible joiner, then 🚒. Man firefighter and Woman firefighter are built the same way. CLDR’s one-word firetruck leads to those three people and not to the truck.
Unicode has a second character, Oncoming fire engine, U+1F6F1. It is not in the emoji list, so it has no tile here.
Questions and answers
What does the 🚒 emoji mean?
A fire engine: by Wikipedia a vehicle, usually a specially built truck, that takes firefighters and water to an incident and carries their equipment.
Is there a ladder truck emoji?
No separate one. Unicode has a single fire vehicle among its emoji. Wikipedia calls a fire truck with an extendable boom an aerial apparatus, and the combo Ladder truck puts Ladder after the engine.
How many truck emoji are there?
CLDR files four emoji under truck: Fire engine, Pickup truck, Delivery truck and Articulated lorry. Only two of them have truck in their names.
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Fire truck emoji 12
🚑AmbulanceU+1F691. The emoji before Fire engine in Unicode’s list. Emoji 0.6.
🔥FireU+1F525. Filed under fire. Emoji 0.6.
🚒Fire engineU+1F692. Unicode’s name for the fire truck. Filed under engine, fire and truck. Emoji 0.6.
🧯Fire extinguisherU+1F9EF. Filed under fire. Emoji 11.0.
🧑🚒FirefighterU+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F692. Unicode builds it from Person, a joiner and Fire engine. Filed under firetruck. Emoji 12.1.
🪜LadderU+1FA9C. The only emoji CLDR files under ladder. Emoji 13.0.
👨🚒Man firefighterU+1F468 U+200D U+1F692. Man, a joiner and Fire engine. Filed under firetruck. Emoji 4.0.
🚓Police carU+1F693. The emoji after Fire engine in Unicode’s list. Emoji 0.6.
🚨Police car lightU+1F6A8. Filed under siren and emergency. Emoji 0.6.
⛑️Rescue worker’s helmetU+26D1 U+FE0F. Filed under rescue and helmet. Emoji 0.7.
💦Sweat dropletsU+1F4A6. Filed under water. Emoji 0.6.
👩🚒Woman firefighterU+1F469 U+200D U+1F692. Woman, a joiner and Fire engine. Filed under firetruck. Emoji 4.0.
Other trucks 4
🚛Articulated lorryU+1F69B. Filed under truck. Emoji 1.0.
🚚Delivery truckU+1F69A. Filed under truck. Emoji 0.6.
🚂LocomotiveU+1F682. The only other emoji CLDR files under engine. Emoji 1.0.
🛻Pickup truckU+1F6FB. Filed under truck. Emoji 13.0.
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Typed ladders 4
@~~~~~~> ' ' 'The hose, spraying. Plain ASCII
@~~~~~~~~>A hose reel and its hose. Plain ASCII
|=|=|=|=|=|A ladder, lying down. Plain ASCII
nee-naw nee-nawThe two-tone siren, by Wiktionary: childish, chiefly British
Truck drawings 2
Fire truck, drawnFive lines of ASCII
Ladder, drawnFive lines of ASCII
Fire truck lines 5
Fire drill at school 🚒A heads-up
Fire station visit today 🚒For the class trip
Future firefighter 🚒For a small fan
Nee-naw, coming through 🚒For a toy truck at full speed
Thank you, firefighters 🚒A thank-you
Fire truck combos 9
🚑🚒🚓All three on callAmbulance, then fire engine, then police car.
🚒🏠Back at the stationFire engine, then house.
🐈🌳🚒Cat in a treeCat, then deciduous tree, then fire engine.
🚒🎂🎈Fire truck birthdayFire engine, then birthday cake, then balloon.
🚒💦Hose outFire engine, then sweat droplets.
🚒🪜Ladder truckFire engine, then ladder.
🚨🚒🚨Lights and sirenPolice car light, then fire engine, then police car light.
🚒🏫School visitFire engine, then school.
🚒🎉Truck in the paradeFire engine, then party popper.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, 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. 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). Fire engine is U+1F692, Emoji 0.6, in the group Travel & Places, subgroup transport-ground: Ambulance is printed before it and Police car after it. CLDR gives it three search words (engine, fire, truck), files four emoji under truck (Fire engine, Pickup truck, Delivery truck, Articulated lorry) and two under engine (Locomotive, Fire engine). Firefighter, Man firefighter and Woman firefighter are sequences that end in U+1F692, and they are the three emoji CLDR files under the one word firetruck. Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt); NamesList.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt) cross-refers Fire engine to Oncoming fire engine, U+1F6F1, which is not in the emoji list. What a fire engine is and carries, where each of fire engine and fire truck is the usual term, that some fire departments use the two for separate vehicles, and the aerial apparatus (a fire truck with an extendable boom) are from Wikipedia, Fire engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_engine, CC BY-SA 4.0). Nee-naw is from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nee-naw, CC BY-SA 4.0). The typed ladder and hoses, the two drawings, the five lines and the nine combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.