The three-thirty emoji is the tiny timekeeper that screams “half past three” without typing a single digit. On Apple/iOS, it shows a clean, round white clock with a slim gray bezel, crisp tick marks, a black minute hand pointing straight down at the 6, and a short hour hand nudged just past the 3—minimal, glossy, very “Calendar invite chic.” It’s instantly recognizable as the late‑afternoon checkpoint or the oh‑no‑it’s‑3:30‑AM doomscroll o’clock.
People drop this emoji to set a meet time, confirm an ETA, or mark that deadly afternoon slump when caffeine becomes a personality. In UK/IE chats, it pairs nicely with “half three”; elsewhere it’s shorthand for school run time, practice pickup, or tea‑and‑biscuits o’clock. It also works sarcastically—“I’ll be there at three-thirty” when you’re obviously showing up at four—or dramatically, like posting it before a marathon 3:30 meeting that could’ve been an email. Expect to see it in Stories as a timestamp aesthetic, or in group texts for time‑zone wrangling without typing AM/PM novels.
Bonus culture nod: it’s not the dentist joke one (that’s 2:30—“tooth-hurty”), but people still use three-thirty to riff on “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere” when it’s clearly not party time. Whether it’s mid‑class yawns, pre‑dinner hanger, or that mysterious productivity window, this emoji says, “The clock is clocking,” with neat, punctual vibes.
An analog clock with the time three-thirty displayed. 3:30.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1928 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 | :clock330: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Clock Face Three-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) | 1f55e |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F55E |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128350 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0x9E |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 95 9E |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 225 236 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD5E |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd5e |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56670 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F55E |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F55E |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128350 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F55E" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x95\x9e" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD5E" |
