→ 2600 ☀ black sun with rays → 263C ☼ white sun with rays → 26ED ⛭ gear without hub
The bright button is the sunny little switch that screams “turn the lights up.” On Apple/iOS it shows a golden-yellow sunburst: a solid circle center with thick spokes, crisp and flat like the brightness control icon. Compared with its sibling 🔅 Low Brightness, this one looks fuller and louder—more rays, more glow. It reads instantly as daylight, clarity, and full-send energy.
People drop it for morning hype (“rise and shine”), glow-up posts, fresh hair highlights, or when a photo edit went heavy on exposure. It doubles as a meme for “enlightenment” moments—big brain unlocked—or sarcastically when someone switches to blinding light mode at 2 a.m. (“my retinas said nope”). In texts it’s flirty-cute (“you light up my screen”), motivational (“shine on”), or dramatic (“the tea was blinding, actually”). It pairs with summer vibes, sunscreen jokes, and SAD-lamp season when everyone is chasing serotonin. Creators use it as a callout button for boosted volume, charisma, or main-character energy. Basically, when you want more light, more optimism, or more attention on whatever you’re posting, this tiny sun does the heavy lifting.
A symbol generally used as an icon on a software user interface to increase the brightness of the connected display, such as a mobile phone or computer monitor. More bright. Also used to represent the sun, sunshine and warmth. Rays of sunlight.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 839 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 | :high_brightness: |
| Keywords | Summer |
| Previous Names: | High Brightness Symbol |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | User Interface Symbols |
| 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) | 1f506 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F506 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128262 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0x86 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 94 86 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 224 206 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD06 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd06 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56582 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F506 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F506 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128262 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F506" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x94\x86" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD06" |
