⌛️Hourglass Done Emoji
Generally, it means “finished,” “done,” or “time’s up. ” People use it to signal that something has reached its conclusion or that a specific timeframe is over.
The hourglass emoji represents time running out or a deadline being met.
- Unicode
- U+231B U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :hourglass:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⌛️ Hourglass Done emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as hourglass emoji.
Hourglass Done emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+231B — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your hourglass done looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Hourglass Done emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :hourglass:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the hourglass done, code point U+231B.
How to type the ⌛️ Hourglass Done emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+231B when there is no key at all.
Hourglass Done emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the hourglass done 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
Hourglass Done emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hourglass done 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What ⌛️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the hourglass done 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: Hourglass Done
Code: U+231B U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :hourglass:
Generally, it means “finished,” “done,” or “time’s up.
Unicode name: Hourglass Not Done
Code: U+23F3 · added 2010
Shortcode: :hourglass_flowing_sand:
Generally, the ⏳ emoji means “taking time” or “waiting.
Where the ⌛️ Hourglass Done 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 E71C, KDDI au E57B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Hourglass Done was approved as U+231B 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.