Three o'clock draws its hands into a clean right angle, hour on the three, minute straight up at twelve. The same hour after midnight has a very different reputation: horror lore made 3 a.m. the "witching hour," said there to mock the crucifixion's traditional 3 p.m., and people caption can't-sleep posts with it whether or not they buy the legend.
What 🕒 means
A circular clock with a plain dial, a grey frame, and a pair of a short and a long hand, pointing at 3 and 12 respectively. Are you feeling the spooks yet? If not, you're not into horror, smh.
The 🕒 Three O'Clock emoji has tons of horror interpretations. Apart from just a scary movie, this emoji can also have certain religious or maybe even cultural significances.
How and when to use it
- You can use 🕒 in the post or repost caption for anything pertaining to Halloween; it can be a Halloween dress-up video, a cooking video, a picture of your Halloween costume, anything.
- Apart from just Halloween, you could bring the 🕒 emoji into frameworks that are generally about nothing but horror. It can be a horror story repost, a horror movie review, a scary dream, etc.
- 🕒 can also be used in general contexts of scaring someone or planning to, irrespective of whether it's taken seriously or not. For example, "I can't rest until I scare the hell outta him 🕒".
- Keeping the scary part aside, 3:00 PM or 15:00 can also refer to Good Friday. So, if you're posting or reposting something for the day, you can use 🕒 in the caption.
Other Names
- 🕒 Clock Strikes Three
- 🕒 3:00 AM
- 🕒 3:00 PM
- 🕒 15:00
- 🕒 Clock Face Showing Three O'Clock
- 🕒 The Devil's Hour
- 🕒 Witching Hour
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › time
- Codepoints
U+1F552- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:clock3::three_oclock:Discord- Keywords
- 3, 3:00, clock, o’clock, three, 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 — 🕒 Three O’clock or 📬 Open Mailbox with Raised Flag?