The sunset emoji is the internet’s built‑in golden hour—no tripod, no Lightroom, just vibes. It pops up on travel dumps, beach flexes, and dreamy "that’s a wrap" posts when the day is clocking out and the main-character soundtrack is swelling. People use it for closure energy (ending a project, a season, a situationship), soft nostalgia, or to flirt like, "come watch the sunset with me?" It also does double duty in corporate-speak: "We’re going to sunset this feature"—cue dramatic sigh and this little orb like a tiny project manager.
On iOS, the sunset shows a glowing orange sun sliding behind a dark city silhouette, tiny windows lit, under a purple‑pink‑tangerine gradient sky that looks like cotton candy met cinema mode. The perspective is horizon-level, so it reads like you’re staring across town at the last light, sometimes with a glossy afterglow that feels postcard-ready. Online, it’s used unironically for serene gratitude posts and ironically with microwave-dinner pics to act like life is poetic anyway. You’ll see it in "photo dump, slide 10" finales, "no filter" brags, "touch grass" reminders, and end-of-day sign-offs when the group chat is entering low-power mode.
Definition
A setting sun over a large cityscape. An urban sunset that is often enjoyed after a hard day of work. Time to relax and enjoy the evening. Also used to represent a rising sun and the start of a new day. Good things to come today.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1007 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:city_sunrise:
Keywords
City, Scape, Sunrise, Dawn, Light, Morning, Metropolitan, Rise, Sun
Previous Names:
Sunset over Buildings
Sunset over the City
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Weather, Landscape, and Sky Symbols
Editorial Comment
Isn't the way the sun lights up the smog romantic? Just Kidding this place is clean. Rising Sun.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Weather and Landscape Symbols
Names & Annotations
SUNSET OVER BUILDINGS
Symbol Information
U+1F307 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-00C
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#1 'Fine' 晴れ 「晴re」 U+E63E SJIS-F89F JIS-7541
KDDI
#371 夕方街並み 「夕方街並mi」 U+E5DA SJIS-F34D JIS-792E
Softbank
#305 #old421 夕日 U+E44A SJIS-FB8B
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e44a
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E44A
Decimal Code Point(s)
58442
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x91 0x8A
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 91 8A
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 221 212
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE44A
UTF-16 Hex
e44a
UTF-16 Dec
58442
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E44A
UTF-32 Hex
E44A
UTF-32 Dec
58442
Python Src
u"\uE44A"
PHP Src
"\xee\x91\x8a"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE44A"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🌇
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🌇
Decimal HTML Entity
🌇
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🌇
Hex Code Point(s)
1f307
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F307
Decimal Code Point(s)
127751
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x87
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8C 87
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 214 207
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF07
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf07
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57095
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F307
UTF-32 Hex
01F307
UTF-32 Dec
127751
Python Src
u"\U0001F307"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8c\x87"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF07"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
