Five o'clock is the clock face doing the most cultural work of the whole set, half quitting time and half in-joke. It's "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," the Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett duet whose writers took home a Grammy for Best Country Song, plus the five o'clock shadow a 1930s razor ad campaign invented to sell more blades.
What 🕔 means
A round clock with a light grey frame, a pair of hands of the same color, and a white dial. The minute-hand is held at 12 or towards the top and the hour-hand is at 5.
The 🕔 Five O'Clock emoji represents 5:00 AM and 5:00 PM in the 12-hour clock, and 5:00 and 17:00 in the 24-hour format. However, this emoji may also have some musical references.
How and when to use it
- If you can't wait but to open that bottle of champagne although its 2 in the afternoon and you're either texting someone or posting about it, you can use 🕔 as a way of saying "It's 2 PM, and this bottle cannot wait. But who cares? It's 🕔 somewhere".
- "It's five o'clock somewhere" essentially refers to earliest hour for a party or to start drinking. So, you can use 🕔 while using this quote in any context; a picture caption, a text, a way of 'seeing the bright side', anything.
- If you're posting your early morning walk, jog, workout, or an evening photoshoot, the evening rains, anything, you can use 🕔 to indicate your current scene during the AM and PM slots of 5 o'clock.
- You can also use 🕔 while posting or reposting the latest news posts either showing the time they were released or the time of a news-grabbing incident.
Other Names
- 🕔 5:00 AM
- 🕔 5:00 PM
- 🕔 17:00
- 🕔 Five on the Clock
- 🕔 Its Five O'Clock Somewhere
- 🕔 Clock Showing Five
- 🕔 Clock Face Five O'Clock
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › time
- Codepoints
U+1F554- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:clock5::five_oclock:Discord- Keywords
- 5, 5:00, clock, five, o’clock, 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 — 🕔 Five O’clock or 🕌 Mosque?