Emoji (CLOCK FACE ONE OCLOCK): meaning and Unicode code

🕐 most often means about an hour, an exact time and a feeling of a specific deadline.

Most often 🕐 is combined with ⏰, 📅, ⌛. That combination helps convey the intended tone more clearly.

In a similar context, you can use ⏰, ⌚, 🕰️ instead of 🕐. They carry a similar mood with a slightly different emphasis.

In correspondence it may look like this: "The time is important here: hour 🕐", "The symbol immediately shows that we are talking about a deadline, a meeting or an exact moment 🕐."

It’s worth using 🕐 when you need to show a specific time, remind of a deadline, agreement, meeting or exact moment during the day.

🕐 in messages conveys "this is about an hour", "the exact moment is important" or "the topic of time and agreement is read here."

Its deeper meaning depends on context: the dial often means not only the hour on the hands, but the feeling of an approaching deadline, expectation or time discipline.

🕐 is called clock1; in Unicode it is U+1F550. It belongs to the "Travel & Places" category.