Ambulance

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Shortcode
:ambulance:
Unicode
U+1F691
HTML
🚑
CSS
\1F691
JavaScript
"\u{1F691}"
URL
%F0%9F%9A%91

emergencyvehicle

What ๐Ÿš‘ means

An ambulance on an emergency call. It means a medical emergency, a hospital trip or a call for help.

Serious uses include telling people someone is on the way to the hospital. Jokingly, it means something is so funny, hot or shocking that someone needs medical help, as in 'call an ambulance ๐Ÿš‘'. Paired with ๐Ÿ’€ or ๐Ÿ˜ญ it means 'I can't breathe from laughing'.

Facts

Ambulance ๐Ÿš‘ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under transport ground. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :ambulance:. People also look for it with words like โ€œemergencyโ€ or โ€œvehicleโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. ambulance, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. ambulance, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. ambulance, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. ambulance, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. ambulance, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  3. ambulance, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20232023

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

travel & places ยท Unicode 6.0