This is the clock that screams “half past five,” a.k.a. the universal signal for either sunrise hustle or evening exhale—choose your fighter. People drop it to lock in plans (gym at 5:30, dinner at 5:30), to joke about being fashionably late (“ETA 5:30” sent at 6:12), or to wink at that timeless line: “It’s five o’clock somewhere”—yes, even 5:30 counts in spirit. In chats, it pairs perfectly with ☕ for the 5:30 a.m. grind set or with 🍷 for the 5:30 p.m. happy-hour dash, and parents use it like a siren for school pickup o’clock. It’s also meme-friendly for countdowns, meeting reminders, or the dreaded “traffic hour” confession.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji shows a clean, straight-on analog clock with a white face, silver-gray rim, and crisp minute ticks; the minute hand points straight down to the 6 while the hour hand sits between 5 and 6, with a telltale red second hand parked at 12. The look is minimalist and instantly recognizable—no numerals, just bold quarter-hour marks that make it feel like a tiny wall clock screenshot. Because it doesn’t specify AM or PM, people use it to be coy (“see you at 5:30… figure it out”) or sarcastic (“sure, 5:30 sharp, totally not me in pajamas”). It’s relatable content for commuters, gym rats, and anyone who schedules their life in half-hour blocks—or pretends to, for the aesthetic.
An analog clock with the time five-thirty displayed. 5:30.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1867 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 | :clock530: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Clock Face Five-Thirty |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Clock Face Symbols |
Aww you were ten minutes too late, however, there's no better time than now!
| 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) | 1f560 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F560 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128352 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0xA0 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 95 A0 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 225 240 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD60 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd60 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56672 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F560 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F560 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128352 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F560" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x95\xa0" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD60" |
