= clear weather → 2609 ☉ sun → 1F506 🔆 high brightness symbol ⁓ 2600 FE0E text style ⁓ 2600 FE0F emoji style
Information
The sun emoji is your portable daylight—drop it to announce blue skies, beach plans, or straight-up serotonin. It fuels “gm ☀️” check-ins, motivational rise-and-grind energy, and summer captions declaring Hot Girl Summer has re-entered the chat. People use it for warm, optimistic vibes and “touching grass” energy, or ironically when it’s 102°F and the sidewalk is lava. Pair it with 😎, 🏖️, or 🧴 to scream vacation mode and SPF accountability.
On Apple/iOS, the sun is a golden-yellow circle with a soft orange gradient and a clean halo of sharp triangular rays—front-facing, flat, and expressionless (no cute face, that’s 🌞). It looks like a tiny weather-app badge announcing clear skies, with a warm vector glow and zero cloud cameos. Culturally, it nods to vitamin D, golden hour selfies, solar panels, and the annual boss battle with seasonal gloom. In meme land it’s the “brighten the timeline” button, a sunny period at the end of a spicy take, or a passive-aggressive flourish for weather small talk: “Lovely, isn’t it? ☀️”.
Definition
Happy looking sun, Summer is near. Emoji old name: Sun.
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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.
The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
80 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:sunny:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Black Sun with Rays
Sun with Rays
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols
Unicode Range
2600–26FF
Unicode Subcategory
Weather and Astrological Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Weather and Landscape Symbols
Names & Annotations
BLACK SUN WITH RAYS = ARIB-9364 Temporary Notes: clear weather for Japanese mobile carriers, usually in red color
Symbol Information
☀ U+2600 unified (Unicode 1.1)
Proposal Identifier
e-000
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#1 'Fine' 晴れ 「晴re」 U+E63E SJIS-F89F JIS-7541
KDDI
#44 太陽 U+E488 SJIS-F660 JIS-7541
Softbank
#81 #old74 晴れ 「晴re」 U+E04A SJIS-F98B
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)
e04a
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E04A
Decimal Code Point(s)
57418
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x81 0x8A
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 81 8A
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 201 212
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE04A
UTF-16 Hex
e04a
UTF-16 Dec
57418
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E04A
UTF-32 Hex
E04A
UTF-32 Dec
57418
Python Src
u"\uE04A"
PHP Src
"\xee\x81\x8a"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE04A"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 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)
2600
Formal Unicode Notation
U+2600
Decimal Code Point(s)
9728
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x98 0x80
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 98 80
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 230 200
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x2600
UTF-16 Hex
2600
UTF-16 Dec
9728
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x00002600
UTF-32 Hex
2600
UTF-32 Dec
9728
Python Src
u"\u2600"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x98\x80"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u2600"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 7 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
☀️
UTF-8 Character Count
2
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
☀️
Decimal HTML Entity
☀ ️
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
☀ ️
Hex Code Point(s)
2600, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+2600, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
9728, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x98 0x80, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 98 80, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 230 200, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x2600, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
2600, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
9728, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x00002600 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
2600, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
9728, 65039
Python Src
u"\u2600\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x98\x80\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u2600\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
