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⌛️Hourglass Done Emoji

⌛️ hourglass done is encoded at U+231B U+FE0F and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Travel & Places → Time, alongside 30 related emojis.

What ⌛️ hourglass done 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 done, hourglass and sand and files it under Travel & Places → Time.

Copy variants

hourglass done 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+231Bhourglass done
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+231B U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`⌛️`
HTML decimal	`⌛️`
CSS	`\231B\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{231B}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0000231B\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u231B\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{231b}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{231B}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{231B}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%8C%9B%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 8C 9B EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`231B FE0F`
Base64	`4oyb77iP`
Decimal	`8987 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

done
hourglass
sand
time
timer

Appears in these collections

How to type ⌛️

Windows — press Win + . and search “hourglass done”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “done”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 231b and 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 ⌛️ hourglass done emoji mean?+

⌛️ is the hourglass done emoji, tagged done, hourglass and sand. 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 ⌛️?+

hourglass done is U+231B U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⌛️, in CSS \231B\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{231B}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ⌛️ emoji added?+

hourglass done 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.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⌛️ hourglass done.