The two-thirty emoji is the classic clock face showing 2:30—minute hand straight down at the 6, hour hand chilling between the 2 and 3. It’s the go-to for setting a vibe around a specific time: “Be there at 2:30,” “meeting starts 2:30,” or “ETA 2:30, don’t lock the door.” Culturally, it doubles as the punchline to the old dentist joke—“What time is the dentist appointment? Two-thirty (tooth hurty),” cue groans and dad-joke glory. It also screams mid-afternoon slump: the universal moment for a panic coffee, a snack raid, or a productivity plot twist.
Used online, it can be literal (schedule check-in) or playful/ironic: “It’s 2:30 somewhere,” “time to spiral,” or even late-night “2:30 AM brain doing parkour” energy. Flirty texts slip it in as a soft date-stamp—“coffee at 2:30?”—while meme lords deploy it to mark a dramatic countdown or a chaotic drop time. Time-zone warriors will pair it with city names to dodge confusion, because 2:30 in LA is a whole different mood in London.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a clean, front-facing white dial with a soft gray bezel, simple black hour and minute hands, and no numbers—just neat tick marks. The minute hand points straight down, the hour hand leans neatly between 2 and 3, giving that unmistakable half-past-two look. It’s crisp, minimal, and instantly readable, the design equivalent of a tidy calendar reminder you actually respect.
Whether you’re signaling a meet-up, joking about “tooth hurty,” or narrating your post-lunch crash arc, this emoji stamps a precise moment with a little wink.
An analog clock with the time two-thirty displayed. 2:30.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1902 of 2393 |
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| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :clock230: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Clock Face Two-Thirty |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Clock Face Symbols |
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| 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) | 1f55d |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F55D |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128349 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0x9D |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 95 9D |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 225 235 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD5D |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd5d |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56669 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F55D |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F55D |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128349 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F55D" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x95\x9d" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD5D" |
