Taxi emoji meaning

The taxi emoji is a graphic of a large, boxy vehicle with a number of windows and doors, designed for transporting passengers for hire. The taxi is depicted in various shades of yellow and is shown with a number of wheels and a streamlined design. The emoji is meant to represent a taxi or other vehicle used for paid transportation, and is often used to express the idea of travel or transportation. It can also be used more broadly to represent the idea of convenience or accessibility.

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