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Five-thirty Emoji 🕠

Half past five is the clock face for the workday actually ending, not just the paperwork winding down. It's what you send for "leaving now" or "dinner in thirty minutes" more than for any hour with a name of its own, built for a reply rather than a reference.

What 🕠 means

A grey-framed clock with a pair of hands of the same color, the long hand pointing downwards, or at 6 and the short hand between 5 and 6. It also has a plain white dial.

The 🕠 Five-Thirty emoji signifies both half-past five and half-past seventeen in a 12-hour and a 24-hour format respectively. However, this emoji alone is a 12-hour representation, essentially 5:30 AM and 5:30 PM.

How and when to use it

If you're dropping someone off at the airport or you're being dropped off either at 5:30 AM/PM, and you're recording this significant (you'd know if it's significant) memory either as a social media story or sharing the same as a post, you can use 🕠 in those contexts.
If you start your day at 5:30 in the morning and you're either making a social media post out of your morning routine or texting someone of the same, you can use 🕠 - "So, I'm up by 🕠 and the next thing I do for the next 30 mins is meditate. Believe it or not, it's magical".
If yours is the typical 9-5, in this case, 9:30 to 5:30 schedule, you can use 🕠 while suggesting freedom, especially on a Friday night. Like, "It's 🕠 that too on a Fridayyyy! I'm in a ZONE".
If you've booked the 5:30 movie show or any other show, and you're texting the peeps who're coming along about it, you can use 🕠. For instance, "I hope y'all will get yourselves together by 🕠".

Other Names

🕠 5:30 AM
🕠 5:30 PM
🕠 17:30
🕠 Half-Past Five
🕠 Half-Past Seventeen
🕠 Clock Face Showing Five-Thirty
🕠 It's Five-Thirty

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › time
Codepoints: U+1F560
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :clock530::five_thirty: Discord
Keywords: 30, 5, 5:30, clock, five, five-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.