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Nine O’clock Emoji 🕘

Nine o'clock opens the workday half of the phrase "nine-to-five," the hour most shifts are still built to start on. The phrase predates Dolly Parton's 1980 song by decades, but she's the reason most people picture this exact hour the moment they hear it.

What 🕘 means

A grey-framed round clock with two hands of the same color; the hour-hand pointing at 9 and the minute-hand, at 12, forming a right angle. Also, this clock has a plain white dial.

The 🕘 Nine O'Clock emoji represents both 9 AM and 9 PM in a 12-hour clock. If you like, you could also use this emoji to show time in the 24-hour format, where time would be 9:00 and 21:00.

How and when to use it

Nine in the morning is the typical time most employees begin their work (9-5 gang, wya?). So, if you're sharing a social media story about your start of the day or texting someone that you're at work/starting work, you can use 🕘.
If your bedtime is 9 PM and you're telling that person you're chatting with that you got to go to bed, use 🕘 as a way of indicating that "Time's up, my friend 🕘. My sleep waits for no one!".
On the contrary, if you're the kind to start dinner at 9 PM, and you're posting a social media story/post of the slightly/completely different dinner you're having that night, you can use 🕘. Like, "FINALLY something other than broccoli 🕘".
If you identify yourself by your 9-5 job (not the mentality, of course), you could use 🕘 along with 🕔in your social media profile name or just any social media status.

🕘 9:00 AM
🕘 9:00 PM
🕘 21:00
🕘 Nine in the Morning
🕘 9 to 5 Job
🕘 Clock Strikes Nine
🕘 Clock Face Showing Nine

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › time
Codepoints: U+1F558
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :clock9::nine_oclock: Discord
Keywords: 9, 9:00, clock, nine, 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.