Alarm clock

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Shortcode
:alarm_clock:
Unicode
U+23F0
HTML
⏰
CSS
\23F0
JavaScript
"\u{23F0}"
URL
%E2%8F%B0

alarmclockhourshrslatetimewaiting

What ⏰ means

A classic alarm clock with bells on top. It means waking up, a reminder or a deadline.

People use it for 'up early ⏰', 'reminder: meeting at 3' or 'deadline tomorrow'. It also stresses urgency or lateness. Pairs with 😴 for a rough morning.

Facts

Alarm clock ⏰ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under time. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :alarm_clock:. People also look for it with words like “alarm”, “clock”, “hours”, or “hrs”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. alarm clock, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. alarm clock, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. alarm clock, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. alarm clock, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

travel & places · Unicode 6.0