U+1F558 "🕘" Clock Face Nine Oclock Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F558 "🕘" Clock Face Nine Oclock is a pictographic representation of an analog clock displaying the time as nine o'clock, with the hour hand pointing to the nine and the minute hand pointing to twelve. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and falls under the category of timekeeping symbols, commonly used in digital communication, user interfaces, and calendrical contexts to visually indicate the specific hour without requiring text. This symbol was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of version 6.0, reflecting the growing need for emoji-style icons in electronic text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F558 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Clock Face Nine Oclock |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🕘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🕘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F558 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd58 |