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 Microsoft

Category Travel

Subcategory sky & weather

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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