Ten o'clock used to be half of the classic hands-at-ten-and-two driving position, taught for generations before safety guidance moved. Compare 🕑 Two O'Clock, its old partner on the wheel: the recommended grip has since shifted down to nine and three, clear of an airbag's path, leaving this hour with an old habit more than a current one.
What 🕙 means
A grey-framed circular clock with a white dial and the hour-hand and minute-hand held at 10 and 12, respectively. There may not be numbers, dots, or spokes shown on all platforms but you know them.
The 🕙 Ten O'Clock emoji represents the typical 12-hour clock, where time is told in terms of AM and PM; 10:00 AM and 10:00 PM. This emoji could also be used to tell time in the 24-hour way, 10:00 and 22:00.
How and when to use it
- If you're posting or reposting anything about a show/TV program named after this particular slot in time, feel free to use 🕙. Brownie points if the show starts at 10 indeed!
- Similar to the 4 o'clock reference to flowers, there are 10 o'clock plants/flowers too! And you know where this is going. Use 🕙 in the captions or even in direct messages (DM) if you're talking about these colorful little guys (the time ref. here is essentially the time they bloom).
- Based on the previous point, if you're referring to someone who wakes up or finally begins to use their brains/consciousness post 10 o'clock only, you could use 🕙 to refer to them, and in a way referring them to the flower too. Aww, isn't it?
- You can also use 🕙 while texting goodnight to that friend/bestie/just a random person you're texting coz you're bored either because you know that 10 is when they sleep or because it's your bedtime.
Other Names
- 🕙 10:00 AM
- 🕙 10:00 PM
- 🕙 22:00
- 🕙 Clock Strikes Ten
- 🕙 Clock Face Ten
- 🕙 Ten in the Morning
- 🕙 Ten at Night
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › time
- Codepoints
U+1F559- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:clock10::ten_oclock:Discord- Keywords
- 0, 10, 10:00, clock, o’clock, ten
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 — 🕙 Ten O’clock or 🛏️ Bed?