The four o’clock emoji is the classic analog clock face frozen at exactly 4:00—hour hand lounging at the 4, minute hand pointing straight up like it’s keeping score. On Apple/iOS it’s a clean, white dial with a soft gray rim, crisp black tick marks, and bold hands; many versions even add a slim red second hand parked at 12 for that punctual, screenshot-ready vibe. It’s a front-facing, no-nonsense look that screams “on the dot,” perfect for when you’re making plans or dropping a very specific time in chat.
Need to set a vibe? People use it to announce “meet at 4,” signal happy hour kickoff, or channel that old-school British afternoon-tea energy. It also works as a passive-aggressive timestamp—“It’s 4:00, where you at?”—or as a tidy receipt for punctuality in group chats. In social posts, it’s a neat visual for countdowns, school pickup reminders, gym o’clock, or product drops hitting at 4 PM sharp.
There’s meme energy too: the “4AM brain gremlins” crowd uses it to dramatize late-night spirals, while office folks deploy it as the pre-5PM freedom bell. Flirty planners might toss it in a DM—“4 o’clock?”—to lock a low-key date without overthinking. And when someone arrives at 4:07, this emoji becomes the side-eye in clock form—cute, petty, and perfectly precise.
Definition
An analog clock with the time four o'clock displayed. 4:00.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1900 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:clock4:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Clock Face Four OClock
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Clock Face Symbols
Editorial Comment
A clock with the minute hand at 12 and the hour hand at 4. Only 20 more minutes. :) The clock images in iOS 5 were revamped with thinner borders and larger hands. iEmoji old Name: 4:00
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
User Interface Symbols
Names & Annotations
CLOCK FACE FOUR OCLOCK
Symbol Information
U+1F553 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-021
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#176 'Clock' 時計 U+E6BA SJIS-F95E JIS-7833
KDDI
#46 時計 U+E594 SJIS-F7B1 JIS-7833
Softbank
#364 #old39 時計(４時) U+E027 SJIS-F967
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🕓
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🕓
Decimal HTML Entity
🕓
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🕓
Hex Code Point(s)
1f553
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F553
Decimal Code Point(s)
128339
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0x93
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 95 93
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 225 223
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDD53
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddd53
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56659
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F553
UTF-32 Hex
01F553
UTF-32 Dec
128339
Python Src
u"\U0001F553"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x95\x93"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDD53"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
