By half past two the day has settled into its flattest stretch, no lunch left to talk about and evening still a long way off. It's the face for an afternoon with nothing scheduled in it, the quiet middle where nothing much has a name yet.
What 🕝 means
A simple and plain round clock with a silver frame and a pair of hands of the same color. The short hand in this pair is held between 2 and 3, and the long hand at 6.
The 🕝 Two-Thirty emoji is a visual representation of both AM and PM time slots of 2:30; it signifies 2:30 AM and 2:30 PM in the 12-hour clock and in the 24-hour clock, it suggests 2:30 and 14:30 (no AM and PM).
How and when to use it
- Is there a party starting around 2:30 or 14:30? Are you texting your buddies to be ready or get to the venue by then? If that's the case, then you can use 🕝 in those conversations.
- There isn't a need to type out the time while using 🕝. However, ensure that the person you're sending it to is familiar with time emojis and moreover can decipher this tiny emoji on their phones.
- If you're texting someone that you're heading for your 2:30 PM nap or that you're finally crashing at 2:30 AM, you can bring in the 🕝. Like, "Aight, mate. Gonna take my most important nap of the day 🕝".
- If someone you know is in a different time zone and they're asking you the time in your zone, you can send 🕝 if it's 2:30 indeed.
Other Names
- 🕝 Half-Past Two
- 🕝 Half-Past Fourteen
- 🕝 2:30 AM
- 🕝 2:30 PM
- 🕝 14:30
- 🕝 Clock Showing Two-Thirty
- 🕝 Clock Face Two-Thirty
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › time
- Codepoints
U+1F55D- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:clock230::two_thirty:Discord- Keywords
- 2, 2:30, 30, clock, thirty, time, two, two-thirty
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 — 🕝 Two-thirty or 🍡 Dango?