⏰Alarm Clock Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the ⏰ emoji in a text, they’re just reminding you of something – like a meeting or an event. It’s a quick way to say "don’t forget!
The ⏰ emoji is an alarm clock.
- Unicode
- U+23F0
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :alarm_clock:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⏰ Alarm Clock emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
Alarm Clock emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+23F0. 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.
Alarm 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 :alarm_clock:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+23F0.
How to type the ⏰ Alarm Clock emoji
No picker to hand? The alarm clock can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Alarm Clock emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the alarm 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
Alarm Clock emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around alarm 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
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
⏰ vs ⏲ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
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.
Unicode name: Timer Clock
Code: U+23F2 · added 2015
Shortcode: :timer_clock:
It usually means “time’s almost up” or “don’t forget.
Where the ⏰ Alarm 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+23F0 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.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Alarm Clock was approved as U+23F0 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.