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Eight o’clock

Eight o’clock Emoji

Travel

A classic analog clock face with the hour hand pointing directly at eight and the minute hand fixed at the twelve. It provides a clear, unmistakable visual marker for the eight o'clock hour.

Usage Context

Used to coordinate meetings, signal the start of a workday, or specify a time for social plans. It is frequently employed in scheduling messages to confirm an evening appointment or to emphasize an early morning start, often alongside ⏰ to act as an alarm or 📅 to mark a specific date.

History

Clock faces were standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. These designs were inspired by the wall-mounted analog clocks prevalent in schoolrooms and offices throughout the 20th century, serving as a universal visual shorthand for time before digital timestamps became the default on mobile devices.

Details

Glyph
🕗
Unicode
U+1F557
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f557:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Travel
Subcategory time
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
eight o clock88:0080020:002000timelateearlyscheduleclock8faceoclocko’clockwatchappointmentdeadlinemorningevening

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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