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Nine o’clock

Nine o’clock Emoji

Travel

A classic analog clock face showing the hour hand pointing to the nine and the minute hand fixed at the twelve. It represents the exact time of 9:00, whether morning or night.

Usage Context

Widely used to coordinate meetups, set deadlines, or signal the start of a business day. In casual messaging, it is frequently used to indicate a specific event time or to joke about being late, and is often paired with 🕗 or 🕙 to emphasize the ticking of the clock or a changing schedule.

History

Clock faces were added to the Unicode standard to standardize how time is displayed across global platforms. Before widespread digital clocks, these icons mimicked the physical wall clocks found in offices and train stations, providing a familiar way to communicate time without needing to type out digits.

Details

Glyph
🕘
Unicode
U+1F558
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f558:
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
nine o clock99:0021:00timelateearlyscheduleclockfaceo’clockanalog clocktime managementappointment

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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