The police car emoji is your instant “uh-oh, the popo” button—perfect for calling out rule-breaking, fake emergencies, or that friend who just admitted to putting pineapple on pizza. It’s used for everything from playful crackdowns (vibe police, grammar police, horny police) to dramatic “on my way with sirens” texts when you’re racing to brunch like it’s Need for Speed. Toss it next to 🚨 for extra chaos energy, or drop it sarcastically when someone posts a take so spicy it should be illegal. In meme-speak, it often means “busted,” “caught in 4K,” or “delete this before the authorities arrive.”
On Apple/iOS, it’s a left-facing, black-and-white patrol cruiser with blue-tinted windows, a red-and-blue light bar on the roof, chunky tires, and a gold star-style badge on the door—classic cop-car vibes you’d spot in TV chases. People also read it as “5-0” or “the 12,” nodding to pop culture cops from GTA wanted-level chaos to ’90s TV sirens. You’ll see it patrolling TikTok comments when someone needs to be stopped for crimes against fashion, grammar, or common sense. Flirtatiously, it pops up to “arrest” someone for being too cute; dramatically, it’s the go-to when a joke goes too far and you’re “reporting this” to the authorities (aka the group chat).
Definition
The side of a police car. A police car is used by police officers to get from one place to another. They have lights and sirens that tell other vehicles to move aside when people need help or criminals need capture.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
These must be European style cars because they lack the 'oomph' and by 'oomph' I mean they look nimble but probably can't go more than 100kph on open road.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Names & Annotations
POLICE CAR Old name: POLICE CAR-1
Symbol Information
U+1F693 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-7F4
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[パトカー]
KDDI
#474 パトカー 「patokaa」 U+EAE1 SJIS-F3B5 JIS-7A37
Softbank
#201 #old397 パトカー 「patokaa」 U+E432 SJIS-FB72
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🚓
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🚓
Decimal HTML Entity
🚓
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🚓
Hex Code Point(s)
1f693
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F693
Decimal Code Point(s)
128659
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x93
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 9A 93
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 232 223
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDE93
UTF-16 Hex
d83dde93
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56979
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F693
UTF-32 Hex
01F693
UTF-32 Dec
128659
Python Src
u"\U0001F693"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x9a\x93"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDE93"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
