U+1F691 "🚑" Ambulance Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F691 "🚑" Ambulance is a pictographic symbol representing an emergency medical vehicle, typically depicted as a boxy white van with red and blue lights and a prominent red cross or star of life on its side, though design details vary across different platforms and device manufacturers. It belongs to the Transport and Map Symbols block and is commonly used in digital communication to indicate medical emergencies, hospitals, urgent care, or the concept of saving lives and rapid response. This emoji conveys a sense of urgency and assistance, often appearing in messages about accidents, health crises, or rescue operations, and it serves as a quick, universal visual shorthand for ambulance services in texting, social media, and other digital contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F691
Version Added 6.0
Name Ambulance
Block Transport and Map Symbols
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 🚑
HTML Hex Encoding 🚑
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDE91
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F691
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\ude91

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other
Emoji Yes
Emoji Presentation Yes
Extended Pictographic Yes