Online, this one thrives on winks and soft launches: perfect to slap over a photo of an absolute downpour to clown on your weather app, or to tease new plans, projects, even relationships with a “not hiding, just partly visible” nudge. Drop it in a good-morning text for flirty lightness, in Stories to flag brunch-weather conditions, or as a quiet “we’re fine now” after the group-chat thunderstorm passes.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a warm yellow sun with crisp triangular rays peeking from behind a small, puffy white cloud with gentle gray shading—front-facing, smooth gradients, no face, just clean minimalism. The overlap nails that half-reveal, like the sun photobombing the cloud, delivering instant “partly cloudy” energy at a glance.
Meaning-wise, it’s the weather app’s meh-but-optimistic badge—partly sunny, slightly sassy. It says there’s light with a bit of shade: ideal for picnic-maybe planning, a post-drama mood lift, or that cautious “outside is tolerable” feeling. In texts it reads as “I’m in a decent mood,” “the day is clearing up,” or “soft positivity—not full sunshine yet.” It also moonlights as the internet’s silver-lining symbol, the one you send when the plot twist finally stops twisting.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
