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⏱️Stopwatch Emoji
⏱️ stopwatch — U+23F1 U+FE0F, added in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Unicode groups it with the other 31 time emojis under Travel & Places.
What ⏱️ stopwatch 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 clock, time and files it under Travel & Places → Time.
Copy variants
stopwatch 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+23F1stopwatch
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+23F1 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⏱️ | |
| HTML decimal | ⏱️ | |
| CSS | \23F1\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{23F1}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U000023F1\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u23F1\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{23f1}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{23F1}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{23F1}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%8F%B1%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 8F B1 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 23F1 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4o+x77iP | |
| Decimal | 9201 65039 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ⏱️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “stopwatch”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “clock”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type23f1and 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 ⏱️ stopwatch emoji mean?+
⏱️ is the stopwatch emoji, tagged clock, time. 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 ⏱️?+
stopwatch is U+23F1 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⏱️, in CSS \23F1\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{23F1}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ⏱️ emoji added?+
stopwatch got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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 Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⏱️ stopwatch.