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⏰️Alarm Clock Emoji
Tagged alarm, clock and hours, ⏰️ alarm clock sits in Unicode's Time group inside Travel & Places. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+23F0 U+FE0F.
What ⏰️ alarm clock means
Twenty-four of these characters are clock faces — every hour and every half-hour — and hardly anyone uses them to state a time; the half-past set arrived in Unicode 7.0. What people actually reach for is ⏳ and ⌛ for waiting, ⏰ for a deadline or a wake-up, and ⏱️ for speed. The clock faces mostly decorate.
Unicode tags this one alarm, clock and hours and files it under Travel & Places → Time.
Copy variants
alarm clock carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ⏰️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ⏰U+23F0alarm clock
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+23F0 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⏰️ | |
| HTML decimal | ⏰️ | |
| CSS | \23F0\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{23F0}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U000023F0\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u23F0\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{23f0}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{23F0}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{23F0}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%8F%B0%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 8F B0 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 23F0 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4o+w77iP | |
| Decimal | 9200 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ⏰️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “alarm clock”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “alarm”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type23f0and Enter. - HTML — paste
⏰️.
How ⏰️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- ⏰️Apple
- ⏰️Segoe
- ⏰️Noto
- ⏰️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the ⏰️ alarm clock emoji mean?+
⏰️ is the alarm clock emoji, tagged alarm, clock and hours. Twenty-four of these characters are clock faces — every hour and every half-hour — and hardly anyone uses them to state a time; the half-past set arrived in Unicode 7.0. What people actually reach for is ⏳ and ⌛ for waiting, ⏰ for a deadline or a wake-up, and ⏱️ for speed. The clock faces mostly decorate.
What is the Unicode code for ⏰️?+
alarm clock is U+23F0 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⏰️, in CSS \23F0\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{23F0}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ⏰️ emoji added?+
alarm clock got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Time in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⏰️ alarm clock.