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Ten-thirty Emoji 🕥

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.

ten-thirty on Apple
Apple
ten-thirty on Google
Google
ten-thirty on Twitter/X
Twitter/X
ten-thirty on Facebook
Facebook
ten-thirty on Microsoft
Microsoft

⚡ Quick round

Which joined the keyboard first — 🕥 Ten-thirty or 🇦🇸 Flag: American Samoa?

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