What ⛆ means
It belonged to Japan's digital-broadcasting symbol set.
Japan's Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) issued the ARIB STD-B24 standard for digital broadcasting in 1999. Its weather-symbol set used ⛆ for rainy weather.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Cloud With Lightning And Rain
⛈ is the thunderstorm mark in the same ARIB-derived weather-symbol set: it pairs rain with a thunder cloud.
Black Snowman
The heavy-snow sign from the same Japanese ARIB weather-forecast set.
Sun Behind Cloud
The sun-behind-cloud sign from the same Japanese ARIB weather-forecast set.
Combination ideas
4Rain today, bring an umbrella
Sunny now, rain later
Rain outside, coffee inside
A rainy day for staying in bed
Questions people ask
1Is ⛆ an emoji?
No. It is a text weather symbol drawn by the font, not a standardized emoji character.
More like this
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Collections with ⛆
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How to type or find ⛆
- Search it as
- rain symbol · weather symbol · ARIB STD-B24
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⛆
HTML hex
⛆
CSS content
content: "\26C6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9B%86
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.