The sun behind large cloud is the weather app’s version of ‘it’s complicated’—a little bright, a little moody, and totally relatable. It signals partly sunny vibes, cautious optimism, or that hopeful moment when the day finally decides to stop being a grayscale film. People use it for morning check-ins, British weather jokes, and that classic ‘plans are on, unless the sky says otherwise’ energy. It also works as a feelings emoji: a silver lining for your inbox, a soft glow after messy drama, or a ‘good news… with a cloud-sized asterisk.’
On Apple/iOS, the design features a big, puffy white-to-light-gray cloud with gentle shading, and a golden-yellow sun peeking from the top-right, its pointy rays half-hidden—no face, just glossy warmth. The cloud’s rounded lobes look pillowy and 3D, while the sun’s smooth gradient makes it feel like a morning light sneak attack. It’s instantly recognizable as the classic partly sunny icon you’ve seen on forecasts since forever.
Online, it’s used playfully and ironically: ‘mood swings but make it meteorology,’ the soft launch of summer, or a flirty ‘good morning, kinda’ when you’re still in bed. Drop it with rain or umbrella emojis to announce chaotic skies, or pair it with sunglasses for that brave-but-chilly picnic flex. In memes, it doubles as ‘hope peeking through’ after a messy group chat, and on IG Stories it’s the default sticker for ‘the day might serve.’
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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.
