Hourglass done

Your device cannot show this emoji yet. It still copies, and newer phones will show it.

Shortcode
:hourglass:
Shortcode
:hourglass_done:
Unicode
U+231B
HTML
⌛
CSS
\231B
JavaScript
"\u{231B}"
URL
%E2%8C%9B

donehourglasssandtimetimer

What ⌛ means

An hourglass with all the sand run out. It means time is up.

Used to say a deadline passed, a wait is over, or a chance is gone. It can also call out someone who took far too long to reply. Compare ⏳, which shows time still running.

Facts

Hourglass done ⌛ 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 :hourglass: or :hourglass_done:. People also look for it with words like “done”, “hourglass”, “sand”, or “time”.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. hourglass done, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. hourglass done, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. hourglass done, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. hourglass done, 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