Six o’clock

What 🕕 means

A clock face with its hands in one straight line, top to bottom. It means 6:00, either dinnertime or dawn.

Families use it for dinner and the evening news hour. Early starters use it for a 6 a.m. alarm or workout. It also sets after-work plans: 'drinks at 🕕?'

Facts

Six 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 :clock6: or :six_oclock:. People also look for it with words like “6”, “6:00”, “clock”, or “o’clock”.

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