U+2600 U+FE0F

☀️ Sun

bright rays space sunny weather

Subcategory
Sky & Weather
Shortcode
Unicode version
6.0 (2010)
Emoji version
0.6 (2010)
Status
fully-qualified

What the ☀️ emoji means

A plain sun with rays. Clear weather, warmth, daytime — the factual version of 🌞.

The right one for a forecast or a schedule, where the face on 🌞 would look childish. Also marks the light setting on screens and devices.

Chat examples

What ☀️ is made of

This symbol is written with several code points rather than one. Here is what stands behind it, in order.

  1. symbol U+2600
  2. «draw as a picture» marker U+FE0F

Will your readers see ☀️

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

  • Apple always there
  • Google always there
  • Microsoft always there
  • Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the ☀️ emoji is used

The ☀️ smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how sun is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English sun
Русский солнце
Deutsch Sonne
Español sol
Français soleil
Polski słońce
Dansk sol
Українська сонце
Português sol

Unicode CLDR 48

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