Hourglass

Group: Technical

Keywords

technical

About this character

Hourglass belongs to the Technical group and is encoded at U+231B. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+231B
Hex: 231B
Decimal: 8987
HTML: ⌛
CSS: \231B
JavaScript: \u231B
Python: \u231B
UTF-8: E2 8C 9B

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Diameter Sign U+2300 Similar
Electric Arrow U+2301 Similar
House U+2302 Similar
Up Arrowhead U+2303 Similar
Down Arrowhead U+2304 Similar
Projective U+2305 Similar
Perspective U+2306 Similar
Wavy Line U+2307 Similar
Left Ceiling U+2308 Similar
Right Ceiling U+2309 Similar
Left Floor U+230A Similar
Right Floor U+230B Similar
Bottom Right Crop U+230C Similar
Bottom Left Crop U+230D Similar
Top Right Crop U+230E Similar
Top Left Crop U+230F Similar
Reversed Not Sign U+2310 Similar
Square Lozenge U+2311 Similar
Arc U+2312 Similar
Segment U+2313 Similar
Sector U+2314 Similar
Telephone Recorder U+2315 Similar
Position Indicator U+2316 Similar
Viewdata Square U+2317 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.