Travel & Places · Emoji 0.7
🌩️Cloud with Lightning Emoji
Generally, 🌩️ means a thunderstorm or severe weather. People use it to express the feeling of a storm or to warn others about bad weather.
The 🌩️ emoji represents a cumulonimbus cloud with lightning flashing from it.
- Unicode
- U+1F329 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :lightning:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🌩️ Cloud with Lightning emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Cloud with Lightning emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F329. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 8.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Cloud with Lightning 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 :lightning:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F329.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🌩️ Cloud with Lightning emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F329 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Cloud with Lightning 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
Cloud with Lightning emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cloud with lightning 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🌩️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
🌩️ vs 🌤️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Cloud with Lightning
Code: U+1F329 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :lightning:
Generally, 🌩️ means a thunderstorm or severe weather.
Unicode name: Sun Behind Small Cloud
Code: U+1F324 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :mostly_sunny:
Basically, it just means “partly cloudy” or “it’s a bit cloudy but still nice.”
11 — History
Where the 🌩️ Cloud with Lightning emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the cloud with lightning to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F329 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.
Cloud with Lightning was approved as U+1F329 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