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Six O’clock Emoji

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About Six O’clock 🕕️

Six O’clock () is part of the Travel & Places group in Unicode. Added in Unicode E0.6. Type on GitHub and Slack to use it. Click copy above to grab it, paste it anywhere.

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Often associated with 6, 6:00, clock, and 3 more keywords.

Meaning varies across cultures, see cultural notes below.

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How it looks

What does it mean?

An analog clock face showing 6:00, with hands pointing straight up and straight down. Six o'clock is the universal dividing line. At 6 PM, the workday ends, dinner begins, and "personal time" officially starts. At 6 AM, it's the opposite: alarms ring, routines kick in, and the day demands attention. No other hour sits so cleanly on the boundary between halves of the day.

Visually, 🕕 is the tidiest clock emoji. The hands form a perfect vertical line, which gives it a visual crispness the other clock faces don't have. It's part of the original 12 hourly clocks from SoftBank's Japanese carrier emoji, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010).

Most commonly used to signal the end of the workday. "Freedom at 🕕" or just 🕕🍺 gets the point across. On Fridays especially, 🕕 becomes shorthand for happy hour and the start of the weekend. In family group chats, it's dinner coordination: "eating at 🕕" is faster than typing it out. Early risers use it for 6 AM gym or run posts. Among the 24 clock emojis, all rank in Unicode's Group 15, the lowest usage tier.

End of workdayDinner timeHappy hour6 AM alarm / morning routineSchedule coordinationWeekend kickoff
What does the 🕕 emoji mean?

It shows six o'clock on an analog clock. Commonly used for end-of-workday messages, dinner plans, happy hour, or 6 AM morning routines.

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Every Hour of the Day

All 24 clock face emojis in time order, from 1:00 through 12:30. Unicode covers every full and half hour of a 12-hour dial.
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The Clock Face Family

Unicode has 24 clock face emojis: 12 hourly clocks from SoftBank's 1997 Japanese carrier set and 12 half-hour clocks from Wingdings. All 24 shipped in Unicode 6.0 (2010).
🕐One O'Clock
The default 'time' emoji for most people, thanks to keyboard position.
🕜One-Thirty
Half-hour Wingdings variant. Post-lunch scheduling.
🕑Two O'Clock
Early afternoon or the small hours of the night.
🕝Two-Thirty
Mid-afternoon, the pre-slump stretch.
🕒Three O'Clock
Afternoon tea, school pickup, or the 3 AM witching hour.
🕞Three-Thirty
School pickup time across much of the world.

Emoji combos

Around the world

United States

6 PM is deeply tied to the "It's five o'clock somewhere" drinking culture. While that phrase technically references 5:00, six is the hour when happy hour is indisputably active. The 6 o'clock news was a broadcast television institution for decades.

Spain & Latin America

6 PM is still mid-afternoon in cultures with later schedules. Dinner won't happen until 9 or 10 PM. Six o'clock is when the evening paseo (stroll) begins in many Spanish towns.

Japan

6 PM marks the end of the standard workday, though many workers stay later. The phrase "roku-ji" (six o'clock) is closely associated with the evening commute and the concept of feierabend, the transition from work to personal time.

What does 'check your six' mean?

It's military/aviation slang for 'look behind you.' The clock position system uses a clock face to describe directions: 12 o'clock is straight ahead, 6 o'clock is directly behind, 3 o'clock is to the right, 9 o'clock is to the left.

Is 6 PM dinner time everywhere?

Not at all. In Spain and parts of Latin America, dinner is typically at 9 or 10 PM. In Japan, the workday officially ends at 6 but many people stay later. The 6 PM dinner norm is mostly Anglo-American.

🤔"Check your six" comes from clock positions
Military and aviation use clock positions for direction. Twelve o'clock is straight ahead, six o'clock is directly behind. "Check your six" means look behind you. It's the same analog clock face logic.
🎲The visual frown
Watch brands avoid showing 6:00 in ads because the hands form a downward V that looks like a frown. If you're using 🕕 in a post, it's technically the saddest-looking clock face.

Fun facts

  • •🕕 is the only clock emoji where both hands form a perfectly straight vertical line. At 6:00 sharp, the minute and hour hands point in exact opposite directions.
  • •The "six o'clock news" was once the most-watched broadcast in American television. Walter Cronkite's CBS Evening News defined the format and ran at 6:30 PM for nearly two decades.
  • •In the military clock position system, "six o'clock" means directly behind you. "Check your six" is pilot slang for "watch your back."
  • •Most analog watch advertisements set the time to 10:10, not 6:00. The V-shape at 10:10 frames the brand logo and resembles a smile. At 6:00, the hands form a frown.
  • •Exactly half the day has passed at 6:00, whether AM or PM. It's the mathematical midpoint of either the daytime or nighttime half of a 24-hour cycle.
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