Six-thirty is the “half past” clock emoji—perfect for plotting dinner dates, after‑work meetups, or that brave 6:30 a.m. gym promise you’ll definitely snooze. In texts and captions it doubles as a time-stamp flex ("on time, who dis") or a passive‑aggressive nudge when someone thinks 6:30 means "arrive at 6:52". It also fuels meme talk like "half past chaos" or "it’s giving rush‑hour energy," and plays nicely with countdown posts before a drop or livestream. UK friends call it "half six," which routinely confuses Americans and sparks at least one "wait, is that 5:30 or 6:30?" moment.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji is a clean white clock face with a subtle silver‑gray bezel, simple black tick marks, and no numbers—very minimalist wall‑clock chic. The minute hand points straight down at the 6, while the hour hand lounges between 6 and 7; there’s a tiny black center pin and gentle shading that makes it look slightly 3D. People drop it to signal golden‑hour meetups, kid‑bedtime warnings, commute oopsies, or to set the vibe for "Netflix o’clock but first takeout." Not to be confused with six o’clock (🕕) or seven o’clock (🕖); this one screams "halfway there"—equal parts punctuality and procrastination.
An analog clock with the time six-thirty displayed. 6:30.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1970 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 | :clock630: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Clock Face Six-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) | 1f561 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F561 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128353 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0xA1 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 95 A1 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 225 241 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD61 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd61 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56673 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F561 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F561 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128353 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F561" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x95\xa1" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD61" |
