U+231B, ⌛
HOURGLASS

[U+231A]
Miscellaneous Technical
[U+231C]

U+23F3, ⏳
HOURGLASS WITH FLOWING SAND

[U+23F2]
Miscellaneous Technical
[U+23F4]

U+29D6, ⧖
WHITE HOURGLASS

[U+29D5]
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
[U+29D7]

U+29D7, ⧗
BLACK HOURGLASS

[U+29D6]
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
[U+29D8]

🝮 U+1F76E, 🝮
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR HOUR
🝭
[U+1F76D]
Alchemical Symbols 🝯
[U+1F76F]

Translingual

Presentations of ⌛
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may be different on each system.
Text style is forced with ︎
and emoji style with ️
Presentations of ⏳
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Note: Character's appearance
may be different on each system.
Text style is forced with ︎
and emoji style with ️

Description

An hourglass.

Symbol

⌛︎

  1. Indicates the passage of time.
    • 2005, "Pateta Faz História Como Arquimedes", Almanaque Disney #372 (Disney comic), Editora Abril, Brazil, page 18
      [An hourglass appears besides this text, illustrating the passage of time. Archi (Goofy) is shown as a child, and then years later as an adult.]
      "Anos depois, Árqui enfim completou sua formação!"
      "Years later, Archi completed his education at last!"
  2. (graphical user interface) Indicates that the current application is busy performing an operation.
    • 2011, "Slam Dunk", season 3, episode 7 of Regular Show
      Rigby: You can't even [create a website] right now, anyway. Muscle Man has the computer for the whole day.
      []
      Mordecai: He's not even here. He's playing basketball. [] You snooze, you lose. I'm sure this will only take a second anyways.
      [Mordecai turns on the computer, and an hourglass appears on the screen while the computer is booting.]
  3. (only ) (computing, dated) ISO 2047 symbol for Cancel
  4. (alchemy, archaic) an hour. Dedicated Unicode character 🝮. May occur with or without a cross-bar at the waist. Lobes may be triangular or cordiform, or the design may be a more elaborate pictogram.
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