Travel & Places · Emoji 0.7
🌥️Sun Behind Large Cloud Emoji
Generally, 🌥️ just means it’s cloudy out. People use it to share the weather or describe how they're feeling when the sky is covered in clouds.
The 🌥️ emoji shows a sun partially obscured by a large cloud.
- Unicode
- U+1F325 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :barely_
sunny: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🌥️ Sun Behind Large Cloud emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Sun Behind Large Cloud emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the sun behind large cloud has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Sun Behind Large Cloud emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :barely_sunny:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F325.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🌥️ Sun Behind Large Cloud emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Sun Behind Large Cloud emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 8. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Sun Behind Large Cloud emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around sun behind large cloud for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🌥️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the sun behind large cloud and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🌥️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F325, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
🌥️ vs 🌞 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Sun Behind Large Cloud
Code: U+1F325 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :barely_sunny:
Generally, 🌥️ just means it’s cloudy out.
Unicode name: Sun with Face
Code: U+1F31E · added 2015
Shortcode: :sun_with_face:
Generally, 🌞 means someone is feeling happy and cheerful, like the sun is shining.
11 — History
Where the 🌥️ Sun Behind Large Cloud emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the sun behind large cloud to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F325 U+FE0F 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.
Sun Behind Large Cloud was approved as U+1F325 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🌥️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ