⌚️Watch Emoji
Generally, it just means “watch” or “time. ” People often use it when they’re talking about what time something is happening.
The ⌚️ emoji represents a wristwatch.
- Unicode
- U+231A U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :watch:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⌚️ Watch emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Watch emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+231A. 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.
Watch 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 :watch:.
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+231A.
How to type the ⌚️ Watch emoji
No picker to hand? The watch can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Watch emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Watch emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around watch 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
Chat apps do not change U+231A, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
⌚️ vs ⏱ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Watch
Code: U+231A U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :watch:
Generally, it just means “watch” or “time.
Unicode name: Stopwatch
Code: U+23F1 · added 2015
Shortcode: :stopwatch:
Generally, the ⏱ emoji just means “time.
Where the ⌚️ Watch 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
⌚️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E71F, KDDI au E57A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Watch was approved as U+231A U+FE0F 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.