Half past ten is a placeholder hour, useful mostly for pinning down a vague "sometime mid-morning." It sits late enough for a coffee-break check-in, early enough that lunch is still a plan rather than a decision anyone's actually made.
What 🕥 means
A circular clock with a white dial, a light-grey frame, and two hands of the same color; the short hand is pointing in between 10 and 11, and the long hand is held at 6.
The 🕥 Ten-Thirty emoji is a representation of the common 12-hour clock where 10:30 signifies both AM and PM. It could, however, be used even to express time in the 24-hour clock, whichever you're comfortable with.
How and when to use it
- If you're posting about your morning or night sports practice sessions, either as a social media story, post, or even while sending the same to someone over a direct message (DM), you can use 🕥.
- 🕥 can also be used as a general reference to time and the clock; like the clock is ticking or something like that. For instance, "You gotta be ready by 11 and your clock is ticking 🕥 FAST".
- If you're texting someone and letting them know that you'll arrive at the said venue by 10:30 AM/PM, 🕥 is welcome.
- If you have the permission and the leniency to work a little later than usual and you're messaging your boss or manager about it, use 🕥. For example, "Hey... I'll be starting work a little late. Max by 🕥".
Other Names
- 🕥 Half-Past Ten
- 🕥 Half-Past Twenty Two
- 🕥 10:30 PM
- 🕥 10:30 AM
- 🕥 22:30
- 🕥 Clock Showing Ten Thirty
- 🕥 Clock Face Ten Thirty
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › time
- Codepoints
U+1F565- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:clock1030::ten_thirty:Discord- Keywords
- 10, 10:30, 30, clock, ten, ten-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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🕥 Ten-thirty or 🇦🇸 Flag: American Samoa?