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Hourglass done

Hourglass done Emoji

Travel

An hourglass with all of the sand settled in the bottom bulb. It signals that time has completely run out or that a specific period of waiting has finished.

Usage Context

Used to tell someone that a deadline has passed, an event is over, or that you are finished with a task. It is frequently used in professional communication to mark the end of a session or to signal urgency, often appearing alongside ⏳ to show the transition from waiting to completion.

History

The hourglass has been used as a visual shorthand for the passage of time since the early days of graphical user interfaces. It was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to replace older, vendor-specific icons that appeared in computing systems to indicate that a system process had finally wrapped up.

Details

Glyph
⌛
Unicode
U+231B
Shortcode
:emoji_u231b:
HTML Entity
⌛

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X
Category Travel
Subcategory time
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
hourglass donetimeclockoldschoollimitexamquiztestsandtimerfinisheddeadlineelapsedwaitinghourglass

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