⏳Hourglass Not Done Emoji
Generally, the ⏳ emoji means “taking time” or “waiting. ” It’s used to show something is slow or that you're anticipating something.
The ⏳ emoji is an hourglass.
- Unicode
- U+23F3
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :hourglass_flowing_sand:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⏳ Hourglass Not Done emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 9.
Hourglass Not Done emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+23F3 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your hourglass not 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 Not Done 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 :hourglass_flowing_sand:.
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+23F3.
How to type the ⏳ Hourglass Not Done emoji
No picker to hand? The hourglass not done can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Hourglass Not Done 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
Hourglass Not Done emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hourglass not 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
Who sent the hourglass not done and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
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: Hourglass Not Done
Code: U+23F3 · added 2010
Shortcode: :hourglass_flowing_sand:
Generally, the ⏳ emoji means “taking time” or “waiting.
Unicode name: Hourglass Done
Code: U+231B U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :hourglass:
Generally, it means “finished,” “done,” or “time’s up.
Where the ⏳ Hourglass Not 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.
Same character every time — U+23F3 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 E71C, KDDI au E47C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Hourglass Not Done was approved as U+23F3 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.