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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 Microsoft
Category Travel
Subcategory time
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Tags
eight o clock88:0080020:002000timelateearlyscheduleclock8faceoclocko’clockwatchappointmentdeadlinemorningevening

Microsoft Fluent License

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