hourglass emoji

Empty hourglass — time is up, urgency, and deadlines have passed.

Unicode data

Character	⌛
Codepoint	U+231B
Unicode name	HOURGLASS
Added in	Unicode 0.6
Category	Travel & Places
Subcategory	time
HTML entity	⌛
Shortcode	:hourglass:

Platform support

Apple / iOS✓ Supported

Google / Android✓ Supported

Twitter / X (Twemoji)✓ Supported

Platform designs vary — the same codepoint renders differently on iOS, Android, and web. Twemoji is the open-source reference used on this site (CC BY 4.0).