Four o'clock puts the hour hand a third of the way down the dial, minute hand straight up at twelve. It's the hour the Duchess of Bedford is credited with building afternoon tea around in 1840, tired of the long gap before a dinner that gaslight kept pushing later, and the ritual is still timed to roughly this hour today, scones and all.
What 🕓 means
A round clock with a plain, white dial that has a short and a long hand, pointing towards 4 and 12 respectively. The entire clock has a grey frame, the same color as the hands.
The 🕓 Four O'Clock emoji refers to the AM or PM zone in the 12-hour clock. But, it represents 4:00 and 16:00 in the 24-hour format. However, strangely so, this emoji might also have a reference to a flower.
How and when to use it
- As mentioned in the previous section, there's a flora species sharing its name with this portion of time. So, if you're the kind to use emojis a little outside the box, then feel free to bring 🕓 into the caption for posts or reposts that are about four o'clocks.
- If your work/school timings are till 4, you can use 🕓 to indicate that you're free after four or something like that. For example, "Could we please have it at 5 or 6? I'm done with school at 🕓".
- If someone asked you to wake them up at 4 AM/PM, you can spam them with 🕓 before becoming an annoying call-alarm (well, they asked for it).
- Also, horror wise, the witching hour ends now. So, you too could end your post captions about horror and the supernatural with 🕓.
Other Names
- 🕓 Four
- 🕓 Four in the Morning
- 🕓 4 AM
- 🕓 Four in the Evening
- 🕓 4 PM
- 🕓 16:00
- 🕓 Clock Face Showing Four
- 🕓 Clock Strikes Four
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › time
- Codepoints
U+1F553- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:clock4::four_oclock:Discord- Keywords
- 4, 4:00, clock, four, 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 — 🕓 Four O’clock or 🖕 Middle Finger?