Four o’clock

What 🕓 means

A clock face pointing at four. It stands for 4:00, the late afternoon when the workday starts to wind down.

Used for snack breaks, school activities and the last meeting of the day. In Britain and elsewhere it is a classic hour for a cup of tea, so it can pair with ☕. Early risers sometimes use it for a 4 a.m. start.

Facts

Four o’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 :clock4: or :four_oclock:. People also look for it with words like “4”, “4:00”, “clock”, or “four”.

Timeline

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

Design history

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

travel & places · Unicode 6.0