Hourglass

U+231B
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ⌛
Hex ⌛

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+231B
Decimal
8987
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Symbol (So)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
W Wide

Emoji Details

Subgroup
time
Shortcode
:hourglass_done:
Emoji version
E0.6
Skin tones
No

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Hourglass.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
⌛
HTML Hex
⌛
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 8C 9B
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
23 1B
UTF-32 Hex
0000231B
CSS Escape
\231B
JavaScript Escape
\u231B
Python Escape
\u231B
URL Encoded
%E2%8C%9B
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