U+1F691 "🚑" Ambulance Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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
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