Sun emoji meanings: ☀️, 🌞 and the sun-and-cloud scale
Sun is the one most people mean by "the sun emoji": a yellow or orange disc with rays, meaning sunshine, clear weather, summer, warmth and a good mood. Its official Unicode name is black sun with rays, because it was added in 1993 as a plain text character and only later got a colour emoji look. Sun with face is the friendlier version, a smiling sun that says "good morning", "what a lovely day" or "you are my sunshine"; it arrived with the big emoji batch of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and has a moon partner, full moon face.
The sun-and-cloud emoji form a forecast scale, sunniest first: clear sky, mostly sunny (sun behind small cloud), partly sunny (sun behind cloud), mostly cloudy (sun behind large cloud) and sun with showers (sun behind rain cloud). is the oldest of the four and came into Unicode 5.2 in 2009 from a Japanese broadcasting standard; were filled in by Unicode 7.0 in 2014, which is why they need the invisible variation selector to show in colour and sometimes appear as flat outlines in older apps.
Bright button and dim button are the screen-brightness icons from a laptop keyboard, officially high brightness symbol and low brightness symbol. People use as a small, neat sun when feels too big, and as the "brighten up" or "turn the lights on" emoji; is the quiet, dimmed version for a soft, low-key mood. The full Weather Emoji collection has the rest of the sky: clouds, rain, snow and wind.
Sunrise emoji and sunset emoji:
Sunrise shows the sun coming up over the sea and is the standard "good morning" and "new day" emoji; sunrise over mountains is the same moment inland and is the one hikers and early risers reach for. Both are also used for a fresh start after a hard time, which is why they turn up next to and in motivational posts. The Good Morning & Good Night Emoji collection has the morning routine around them, coffee and alarm clocks included.
Sunset, officially sunset over buildings, is the evening sun sinking behind a city skyline, and cityscape at dusk is a minute later, with the sky turned purple and the windows lit. There is no plain sunset-over-the-sea emoji in Unicode, so does double duty: in a caption it reads as sunset or sunrise depending on the words around it. For golden-hour photos people pair with and ; for a slow evening with or .
Sun text symbols: and the sunbursts
If you want a sun that is not an emoji, a black sun that sits in a line of text and takes the colour of your font, use white sun with rays or the text form of . is the older of the two: it was character 15 on the original IBM PC in 1981, which is why Alt15 still types it on Windows, and it stays a line-art sun everywhere because it has no emoji version at all. without the emoji variation selector is also plain; most phones add the selector automatically, so if your comes out coloured when you wanted black, paste instead. white sun is a rarer outline sun with no rays, added in Unicode 7.0 and shown by fewer fonts.
Sun is the astronomical and astrological sun symbol: a circle with a dot at its centre. Astrologers write a birth chart's sun sign with it, astronomers use it as a unit in M (the mass of the Sun) and L (its luminosity), and alchemists used the same sign for gold. The maths character circled dot operator looks the same and is often pasted as a stand-in; both are in Unicode 1.1, both work in most fonts, but is the one that means the Sun.
The radiating stars of the old Zapf Dingbats set read as suns in text decoration: sixteen-pointed asterisk is the fullest sunburst, circled open-centre eight-pointed star looks like a sun with a corona, is a twelve-pointed burst and eight-pointed star is a sunburst that most phones turn into an orange emoji. The newer geometric set adds matching weights, for eight points and for twelve, so a divider like or can be tuned from thin to bold. The small ray marks are the comic "shine" lines drawn around something bright.
What the sun emoji means from a girl or a guy
In a text, and are warm but not loaded. From a friend they mean "it's a beautiful day", "good morning" or simply good vibes; a sun at the end of a message softens it the way a smile would. From a girl or a guy you are getting to know, a sun emoji usually says you brighten their day, which is friendly and a little affectionate rather than openly flirty; the flirting starts when it comes with or "my sunshine". Lovers use as a sun-and-moon pair, two different people who fit together.
also describes personality: a "sunshine person" or "golden retriever energy" is someone cheerful and open, and in a bio means exactly that. On Instagram and TikTok it tags summer content, beach days, tan lines and golden hour, often as or . and switch the meaning to too much sun, a heat wave or sunburn, and are the sun-protection trio for reminders to put on sunscreen.
Suns in other scripts and on flags
The Chinese and Japanese character 日 means sun and day, and 日本, Japan, means "origin of the sun"; 旭 is the rising sun, and is 日 in a circle, used in Japanese for Sunday in compact timetables and calendars. The Egyptian hieroglyph 𓇳 is the sun disc, the sign of the sun god Ra and the word for day; it needs a font with Egyptian hieroglyphs, so check it on your own phone before putting it in a username.
Fourteen flag emoji carry a sun as their main motif. Japan's red disc is the Hinomaru, the sun circle; Bangladesh's red disc is the sun rising over Bengal. Argentina and Uruguay show the Sun of May with a face, the Philippines an eight-rayed sun for its first provinces, Taiwan a white sun with twelve rays, Nepal a sun under a moon, Kazakhstan a golden sun and eagle, Kyrgyzstan a sun seen through the crown of a yurt, North Macedonia a sun whose rays reach the edges, and Malawi, Rwanda, Namibia and Antigua and Barbuda rising or full suns of their own. Each flag has its own page with the story of its design.
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Sun emoji
the sun itself, then the sun-and-cloud scale from sunniest to showers
Sun text symbols
plain characters that take the colour of your font; ☉ is the astrology and astronomy sun
The sun in other scripts
Chinese and Japanese sun and day, rising sun, circled sun for Sunday, the Egyptian sun disc
How to use them
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- was character 15 of the IBM PC's built-in character set in 1981, so Alt15 still types a sun on Windows; it predates the first colour sun emoji by almost two decades.
- The official Unicode name of is black sun with rays and is white sun with rays: in Unicode's naming, black means filled and white means outlined, nothing to do with colour.
- is officially sunset over buildings; Unicode has no plain sunset over the sea, so the sunrise emoji serves as both, and only the caption decides which it is.
- Astronomers use the sun symbol as a unit: M is one solar mass, about 333,000 Earths, and L is the Sun's luminosity. The same meant gold to medieval alchemists.
- A face on the sun is far older than emoji: the sun in splendour, a sun with a human face, has been drawn in European heraldry since the Middle Ages and still appears on the flags of Argentina and Uruguay.
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8How do I copy and paste the sun emoji?
Tap or click or any other sun on this page to copy it, then paste it into your message, caption or document. On a phone, open the emoji keyboard and type "sun" in its search box; on Windows press Win and the period key and search for sun; on a Mac press Control, Command and Space.
What does the sun emoji mean from a girl?
Usually warmth and good vibes: she is in a good mood, wishing you a good day or saying you brighten hers. It is friendly and a little affectionate rather than openly flirty; with or "my sunshine" it becomes a real compliment.
What does the sun emoji mean from a guy?
The same as from anyone: a sunny mood, a good-morning wish or "you make my day better". Guys often use for the weather and plans too, so read it with the rest of the message; with a face leans more personal than the plain .
What does the sun with face emoji mean?
is a smiling sun: happiness, a bright morning, summer and "you are my sunshine". It is the cheerful version of , and together with (full moon face) it makes the sun-and-moon pair couples use.
How do I get a black sun symbol that is not an emoji?
Use , which has no emoji version and stays a line-art sun in every font, or for the dot-in-circle sun. is also a text character, but most phones add the emoji variation selector and turn it yellow; with the text selector UFE0E stays black in apps that respect it.
What is the sun symbol in astrology?
, a circle with a dot in the centre. It marks the Sun's position in a birth chart, which gives your sun sign, and it is the same symbol astronomers use for the Sun. The Zodiac Sign Symbols collection has the twelve signs it pairs with.
What does the sun symbol on an air conditioner remote mean?
A sun icon on an AC remote is heating mode: the unit warms the room instead of cooling it. A snowflake is cooling mode, a water drop is dry or dehumidify mode and a fan is fan-only. The sun on a screen or keyboard, and , is brightness instead.
Which flags have a sun on them?
Japan , Argentina , Uruguay , the Philippines , Taiwan , Nepal , Bangladesh , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , North Macedonia , Malawi , Rwanda , Namibia and Antigua and Barbuda all carry a sun as the main motif. The Philippine sun has eight rays, one for each of the first provinces to rise against Spanish rule.
