U+2600 U+FE0F
☀️ Sun
- Category
- Travel & Places
- 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.
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☀
symbol
U+2600 -
️
«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
- ☀️ Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 💾 SVG
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OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 💾 SVG
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Twemoji CC BY 4.0 💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Similar emoji and smileys
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- 🌒 waxing crescent moon
- 🌓 first quarter moon
- 🌔 waxing gibbous moon
- 🌕 full moon
- 🌖 waning gibbous moon
- 🌗 last quarter moon
- 🌘 waning crescent moon
- 🌙 crescent moon
- 🌚 new moon face
- 🌛 first quarter moon face
- 🌜 last quarter moon face
- 🌡️ thermometer
- 🌝 full moon face
- 🪐 ringed planet
- 🌠 shooting star
- 🌌 milky way
- ☁️ cloud
- ⛅ sun behind cloud