🌅Sunrise Emoji
Generally, it just means a sunrise. People use it to share a nice image or to express a positive feeling about the beginning of the day.
The 🌅 emoji is a picture of a rising sun.
- Unicode
- U+1F305
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :sunrise:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌅 Sunrise emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Sunrise emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F305 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your sunrise looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Sunrise emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :sunrise:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F305.
How to type the 🌅 Sunrise emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Sunrise emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the sunrise as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Sunrise emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around sunrise for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🌅, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🌅 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the sunrise and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🌅 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the sunrise lands changes how it is taken.
🌅 vs 🌄 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Sunrise
Code: U+1F305 · added 2010
Shortcode: :sunrise:
Generally, it just means a sunrise.
Unicode name: Sunrise Over Mountains
Code: U+1F304 · added 2010
Shortcode: :sunrise_over_mountains:
Generally, 🌄 means someone is sharing a beautiful view of a sunrise with mountains.
Where the 🌅 Sunrise emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F305 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🌅 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E63E, KDDI au EAF4, SoftBank E449.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Sunrise was approved as U+1F305 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🌅 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.