Three o’clock

What 🕒 means

A clock face with its hands at a right angle, pointing to three. It means 3:00 in the afternoon or the small hours of the night.

End-of-school pickup, afternoon coffee breaks and meeting times are its daytime uses. At night it hints at the eerie '3 a.m.' hour that horror fans call the witching hour, often with 👻 or 😳.

Facts

Three 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 :clock3: or :three_oclock:. People also look for it with words like “3”, “3:00”, “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