Hourglass Emoji ⌛
Emoji Meaning
A classic hourglass, indicating that the time is up, as all sand has already fallen into the lower part. This emoji is generally used to discuss various topics about time.
The symbol “Hourglass” is included in the “User interface symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Technical” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Time” subcategory of the “Travel & Places” category.
Synonyms
Hourglass Done, alchemical symbol for hour.
| Unicode Name | Hourglass |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| Unicode Subblock | User interface symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Travel & Places |
| Emoji Subcategory | Time |
| Emoji Name | Hourglass Done |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 231B |
| Simple case change | 231B |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 8C 9B | 226 140 155 | 14847131 | 11100010 10001100 10011011 |
| UTF-16BE | 23 1B | 35 27 | 8987 | 00100011 00011011 |
| UTF-16LE | 1B 23 | 27 35 | 6947 | 00011011 00100011 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 23 1B | 0 0 35 27 | 8987 | 00000000 00000000 00100011 00011011 |
| UTF-32LE | 1B 23 00 00 | 27 35 0 0 | 455278592 | 00011011 00100011 00000000 00000000 |
