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Two O’clock Emoji 🕑

Two o'clock is one of the clock faces borrowed for real-world bearings rather than just real time. Driving instructors used to teach hands-at-ten-and-two on the wheel, and "something's at your two o'clock" still means off to your right and a little ahead, the same clock-position logic pilots use in the cockpit.

What 🕑 means

A round clock face with a greyish frame, a white dial, and a pair of hands of the same color. The long hand points upwards, while the short, on the tenth spoke henceforth.

The 🕑 Two O'Clock emoji represents both the afternoon and midnight slots; 2:00 PM and 2:00 AM. However, this corresponds just to the 12-hour format, since it suggests 2:00 and 14:00 in the 24-hour clock.

How and when to use it

While posting or reposting a song that's about two o'clock or has a prominent mention of it, you can use 🕑 in the caption.
If you've lost track of time with an interesting someone you're chatting up, or if someone's asking you to stay up just coz they're wide awake, you can slap the 🕑 emoji into the conversation as a way of saying "IT'S LATE!! 🕑 GOOD NIGHT".
If you're the one who's hardly sleepy at 2 in the morning, and you're typing out your midnight thoughts either in a regrettable text message or a social media wall, you can use 🕑. Like, "It's 🕑and all I can feel is nothing". (sheesh that was sad. But you get the idea).
If 2:00 or 14:00 is your fav time of the day you may also use 🕑 in your social media profile name.

Other Names

🕑 Two in the Morning
🕑 2:00 AM
🕑 2:00 PM
🕑 14:00
🕑 Afternoon
🕑 Clock Face Two O'Clock
🕑 Clock Showing Two O'Clock
🕑 Two in the Afternoon

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › time
Codepoints: U+1F551
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :clock2::two_oclock: Discord
Keywords: 2, 2:00, clock, o’clock, time, two

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.