Six o'clock is the one hour where both hands line up into a single straight vertical line, hour on the six, minute on the twelve. Local news still anchors its evening broadcast to this hour, and it's the mirror of "on your six," fighter-pilot bearing slang for directly behind you, where twelve o'clock means straight ahead.
What 🕕 means
A circular clock with a light-grey frame and a pair of a short and a long hand of the same color, held in a vertical line, essentially at 6 and 12 respectively, on the white dial of the clock.
The 🕕 Six O'Clock emoji suggests both 6 AM and 6 PM in a 12-hour clock. Although this emoji sticks to this format, it can be used to determine time even in the 24-hour clock; 6:00 and 18:00.
How and when to use it
- Six AM is the typical time one starts his/her day. So, while texting someone that it's time for bed or its time for your 8-hour beauty sleep, you can use 🕕. Like, "Alright. I'mma crash 🕕".
- If it's your routine to head out for a run at 6 AM, you can use 🕕 in the context of a text message or even a social media story/post.
- If you're posting or reposting about something that happened at 6:00 or 18:00, you can add 🕕 in the caption. For example, "It was about 🕕 when this terrible news came out".
- If you're sharing a post or a repost about a brand launch time, a concert time, a product launch, anything that's either happening at 6:00 AM or 6:00 PM in your local time, you can use 🕕.
Other Names
- 🕕 Six AM
- 🕕 Six PM
- 🕕 6:00
- 🕕 18:00
- 🕕 Six in the Morning
- 🕕 Clock Strikes Six
- 🕕 Clock Showing Six O'Clock
- 🕕 Clock Face Six O'Clock
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › time
- Codepoints
U+1F555- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:clock6::six_oclock:Discord- Keywords
- 6, 6:00, clock, o’clock, six, 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 — 🕕 Six O’clock or 🤢 Nauseated Face?