Half past eleven is the last half-hour face before the set loops back around to noon or midnight. It reads as the final stretch of a night winding down, or the last few minutes before a lunch plan actually starts, whichever twelve it's heading toward.
What 🕦 means
A grey-framed round clock with a white dial and a pair of clock hands, both colored grey. The short hand is stationed between 11 and 12 and the long hand is at 6.
The 🕦 Eleven-Thirty emoji represents half-past eleven in the 12-hour clock; showing both AM and PM zones of the same. It could be used to refer to time in the 24-hour clock as well; 11:30 and 23:30.
How and when to use it
- Half-hour till midnight or mid-day. Most times this slot in time is pretty special for many reasons. In a countdown context, you could use 🕦 as a closer countdown to a special day that strikes at twelve. It could be a birthday, an anniversary, a series/game release, etc.
- If you're meeting someone at 11:30, you could use 🕦 just to make sure you don't get stood up. For instance, "The plan is still on, right? 🕦".
- If you have a fairly friendly relationship with your employee/co-worker, you could use 🕦 to determine when that important meeting begins or the time by which you require completed work. For example, "Hey. About those files, please try and get them done soon 🕦".
- Also, if you know the other person takes their emojis seriously, please don't take these time emojis for granted. They mean what they send.
Other Names
- 🕦 Half-Past Eleven
- 🕦 11:30 AM
- 🕦 11:30 PM
- 🕦 Half-Past Twenty Three
- 🕦 23:30
- 🕦 Clock Showing Eleven-Thirty
- 🕦 Clock Face Eleven Thirty
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › time
- Codepoints
U+1F566- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:clock1130::eleven_thirty:Discord- Keywords
- 11, 11:30, 30, clock, eleven, eleven-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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🕦 Eleven-thirty or 🚚 Delivery Truck?