Sun Emoji

Travel

A bright yellow or golden sun represented as a circle with eight sharp, radiating rays. It serves as a universal icon for clear skies, warmth, and the daytime.

Usage Context

Used to describe pleasant weather, express a positive outlook, or indicate the time of day. It is a frequent companion to the 🌤️ or 😎 emojis to set a cheerful tone for outdoor plans or summer vacations.

History

The sun symbol has been a part of digital character sets long before modern platforms, originating from early weather report icons in Japanese mobile telecom systems. It was formally adopted into Unicode 1.1 in 1993 to ensure weather conditions could be represented in plain text across different devices.

Details

Glyph

☀

Unicode

U+2600

Shortcode

:emoji_u2600:

HTML Entity

☀

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory sky & weather

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository