The cloud emoji ☁️ is your tiny pocket forecast and your mood ring rolled into one. People use it for actual weather chat, but also to send soft, floaty vibes—daydreaming, zoning out, or that blissy "cloud nine" feeling. On the flip side, it doubles as shorthand for brain fog, a gloomy Monday, or the exact sound your thoughts make before coffee: static. It also moonlights as tech slang for "the cloud," perfect for iCloud drama, storage flexes, or pretending you backed up your life. Toss it into cottagecore sunsets, vaporwave edits, and sleepy playlists, and it instantly reads serene.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a puffy cumulus silhouette with three rounded lobes, snowy white with cool gray-blue shading and a soft gradient—no outline, no face, no raindrops, just a gentle side profile that looks like a marshmallow drifting by. It pairs beautifully with ✨, 🌈, 🌧️, and 💭 to sell dreamy, contemplative, or forecast-y moods. Sarcastic drop: a lone ☁️ after chaos to say "my brain left the chat." Flirty spin: "you got me on cloud 9 ☁️😉." Meme corner loves the pun—cloud ≠ clout—though "cloud chasing" jokes still float around. Thanks to weather apps, airplane-window pics, and lo-fi cover art, this little puff has major aesthetic clout—uh, cloud.
Definition
A white cloud of not so epic proportions.
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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)
755 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
:cloud:
Keywords
Previous Names:
White Puffy Cloud
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
CLOUD = ARIB-9365
Symbol Information
☁ U+2601 unified (Unicode 1.1)
Proposal Identifier
e-001
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#2 'Cloudy' 曇り 「曇ri」 U+E63F SJIS-F8A0 JIS-7546
KDDI
#107 くもり 「kumori」 U+E48D SJIS-F665 JIS-7546
Softbank
#83 #old73 くもり 「kumori」 U+E049 SJIS-F98A
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)
e049
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E049
Decimal Code Point(s)
57417
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x81 0x89
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 81 89
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 201 211
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE049
UTF-16 Hex
e049
UTF-16 Dec
57417
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E049
UTF-32 Hex
E049
UTF-32 Dec
57417
Python Src
u"\uE049"
PHP Src
"\xee\x81\x89"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE049"
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)
2601
Formal Unicode Notation
U+2601
Decimal Code Point(s)
9729
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x98 0x81
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 98 81
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 230 201
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x2601
UTF-16 Hex
2601
UTF-16 Dec
9729
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x00002601
UTF-32 Hex
2601
UTF-32 Dec
9729
Python Src
u"\u2601"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x98\x81"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u2601"
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)
2601, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+2601, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
9729, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x98 0x81, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 98 81, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 230 201, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x2601, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
2601, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
9729, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x00002601 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
2601, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
9729, 65039
Python Src
u"\u2601\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x98\x81\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u2601\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
