Hourglass
Hourglass has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⌛
- Unicode
- U+231B
About this symbol
The hourglass measures time by sand running from one glass bulb to another, and it became the symbol of passing time and mortality. Computers took it up as the waiting cursor, most famously in early versions of Windows.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- HOURGLASS
- Also called
- Alchemical symbol for hour
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Unicode group
- User interface symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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