Ambulance emoji meaning

The ambulance emoji is a graphic of a large, boxy vehicle with a number of windows and doors, designed for emergency medical transportation. The ambulance is depicted in various shades of red and is shown with a number of wheels and a streamlined design. The emoji is meant to represent an ambulance or other vehicle used for emergency medical transport, and is often used to express the idea of medical emergencies or urgent care. It can also be used more broadly to represent the idea of health care or assistance in times of need.

The ambulance emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026L2/07257