Sun with Face Emoji
A smiling sun with a face, brighter and friendlier than the plain sun symbol.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Sun with Face emoji mean?
A smiling sun with a face, brighter and friendlier than the plain sun symbol.
Cheerful and cartoonish. The smiling face makes it friendlier than ☀️, and it turns up constantly in good-morning messages.
How to use 🌞 naturally
Good morning messages, sunny weather and cheerful greetings.
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 🌞
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Sun with Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A yellow sun with a smiling face, in the style of a picture-book illustration. It sits beside ☀️, the weather symbol, as the version with a personality.
- Today
How its use evolved
Good morning messages, sunny weather and cheerful greetings.
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, have a lovely day 🌞
Finally some sunshine 🌞
Rise and shine 🌞
When to use it
Using 🌞 clearly
Good morning messages, sunny weather and cheerful greetings. It lands as sun emoji or good morning emoji 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 with face emoji
What does 🌞 mean in a text message?
A smiling sun with a face, brighter and friendlier than the plain sun symbol. Cheerful and cartoonish. The smiling face makes it friendlier than ☀️, and it turns up constantly in good-morning messages.
Is 🌞 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are sun emoji, good morning emoji, 🌞 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🌞 look different on another device?
U+1F31E 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 with face 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 with face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🌞 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. 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+1F31E | 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 | \1F31E | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F31E} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8C%9E | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F31E
- Category
- Weather & Nature
- Also known as
- sun emojigood morning emoji🌞 meaning
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