Emergency Response! Highlight medical care with the Ambulance emoji, a symbol of emergency services.
A depiction of an ambulance with flashing lights. The Ambulance emoji is commonly used to represent medical emergencies, healthcare, or urgent situations. If someone sends you a 🚑 emoji, it might mean they are talking about a medical emergency, discussing healthcare, or highlighting an urgent situation.
The 🚑 Ambulance emoji represents or means an emergency vehicle used to transport injured or ill people to a hospital or medical facility.
Simply click on the 🚑 emoji above to instantly copy it to your clipboard. You can then paste it anywhere - in messages, social media, documents, or any app that supports emojis.
The 🚑 ambulance emoji was introduced in Emoji E0.6 and is now supported across all major platforms including iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS.
The 🚑 ambulance emoji belongs to the Travel & Places category, specifically in the Ground Transport subcategory.
Apple shows the ambulance facing left while Google and others show it facing right. This reflects regional reading directions and emergency vehicle conventions. The design also varies in color from red to white depending on local ambulance designs.
| Unicode Name | Ambulance |
| Apple Name | Ambulance |
| Unicode Hexadecimal | U+1F691 |
| Unicode Decimal | U+128657 |
| Escape Sequence | \u1f691 |
| Group | 🌉 Travel & Places |
| Subgroup | 🚗 Ground Transport |
| Proposals | L2/09-026, L2/07-257 |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 | 2010 |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 | 2015 |
| Unicode Name | Ambulance |
| Apple Name | Ambulance |
| Unicode Hexadecimal | U+1F691 |
| Unicode Decimal | U+128657 |
| Escape Sequence | \u1f691 |
| Group | 🌉 Travel & Places |
| Subgroup | 🚗 Ground Transport |
| Proposals | L2/09-026, L2/07-257 |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 | 2010 |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 | 2015 |