🕒Three O’clock Emoji
It just means three o’clock. People use it to clearly state that time.
The 🕒 emoji represents three o’clock.
- Unicode
- U+1F552
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :clock3:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🕒 Three O’clock emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Three O’clock emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F552. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Three O’clock emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :clock3:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F552.
How to type the 🕒 Three O’clock emoji
No picker to hand? The three o’clock can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Three O’clock emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the three o’clock as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Three O’clock emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around three o’clock for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🕒, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🕒 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🕒 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the three o’clock lands changes how it is taken.
🕒 vs ⏰ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Three O’clock
Code: U+1F552 · added 2010
Shortcode: :clock3:
It just means three o’clock.
Unicode name: Alarm Clock
Code: U+23F0 · added 2010
Shortcode: :alarm_clock:
Generally, when someone sends you the ⏰ emoji in a text, they’re just reminding you of something – like a meeting or an event.
Where the 🕒 Three O’clock emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F552 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🕒 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6BA, KDDI au E594, SoftBank E026.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Three O’clock was approved as U+1F552 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🕒 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.