Sun with rays

Meaning and uses

A solid sun with rays, the plain text sun. It means sunny weather, summer and a good mood, and some phones show it as the yellow sun emoji.

Unicode details

☀ is the Unicode character named BLACK SUN WITH RAYS, code point U+2600, in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It can also appear as an emoji, listed under the name “sun”. Plain text is its default, but some apps draw it in colour anyway. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F after it asks for the emoji style, and U+FE0E asks for plain text.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ☀

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “sun”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “sun”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2600, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ☀. In a CSS content property, use "\2600".