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Eight-thirty Emoji 🕣

Half past eight sits between two hours that both have reputations, and borrows neither. It turns up in real logistics messages more than anywhere else, a table booked, a show starting, a reply pinning down exactly when rather than roughly when.

What 🕣 means

A grey-framed circular clock with a pair of clock hands of the same color; the hour-hand (short) and the minute-hand (long) held in between 8 and 9, and at 6, respectively.

The 🕣 Eight-Thirty emoji showcases a generic 12-hour clock, suggesting both 8:30 AM and 8:30 PM. Although it's in the 12-hour format, it can be used to show time in the 24-hour format; 8:30 and 20:30.

How and when to use it

If you're sharing a sports repost and informing your followers of the league timings, you can use 🕣 if the game begins at 8:30 AM/PM.
In a similar context, you can use 🕣 in the caption while posting or reposting about a program, podcast, interview (anything) to denote the start/end time - "Tune into my channel for a live shoutout! 🕣".
You can also use 🕣 while suggesting "the time's going so slow". For instance, "It's been JUST five minutes since the last time I checked my watch but it feels like five HOURS 🕣" (in fact, you can use any emoji from the time series for this use-case).
If you're posting about a Netflix show that releases at 8:30 AM/PM in your local time, you can use 🕣 in the caption. Like, "I don't care HOW broke I'm gonna be, but I'mma get Netflix and BINGE on this show!!!! OMG THE WAIT IS FINALLY OVAAAHHHH 🕣"

Other Names

🕣 Half-Past Eight
🕣 Half-Past Twenty
🕣 8:30 AM
🕣 8:30 PM
🕣 20:30
🕣 Clock Showing Eight-Thirty
🕣 Clock Face Eight-Thirty

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › time
Codepoints: U+1F563
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :clock830::eight_thirty: Discord
Keywords: 30, 8, 8:30, clock, eight, eight-thirty, thirty, time

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.