Try Sun emoji
Edit the text, then change the size.
Meaning & usage
What does the Sun emoji mean?
Sunshine, warmth and clear skies.
Bright, optimistic and warm. It can report literal weather, wish someone a good morning or create an upbeat seasonal mood.
How to use ☀️ naturally
Weather updates and bright moods.
Nature emoji describe weather and places while also carrying emotional associations such as calm, hope, luck or change. They are common in captions because they establish a mood without a long explanation.
From standard to slang
The history of ☀️
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Sun was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A sun with rays, one of the oldest symbols any writing system has. It existed as a weather dingbat long before emoji and still needs a variation selector to appear in colour.
- Today
How its use evolved
Weather updates and bright moods.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of ☀️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Good morning ☀️
Clear skies all weekend ☀️
Sending a little sunshine your way ☀️
When to use it
Using ☀️ clearly
Weather updates and bright moods. It lands as sunny or weather when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the sun emoji
What does ☀️ mean in a text message?
Sunshine, warmth and clear skies. Bright, optimistic and warm. It can report literal weather, wish someone a good morning or create an upbeat seasonal mood.
Is ☀️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are sunny, weather, warm, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does ☀️ look different on another device?
U+2600 U+FE0F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the sun emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. ☀️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the sun emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records ☀️ as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
☀️ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2600 U+FE0F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | ☀️ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | ☀️ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \2600 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{2600}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %E2%98%80%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+2600 U+FE0F
- Category
- Weather & Nature
- Also known as
- sunnyweatherwarm
Put it in a message
When ☀️ is the right choice
Keep browsing