Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
☀️Sun Emoji
Generally, ☀️ means the sun itself. People use it to express happiness or when something feels bright and cheerful.
The ☀️ emoji represents the sun.
- Unicode
- U+2600 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :sunny:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ☀️ Sun emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Sun emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+2600. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Sun 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 :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+2600.
04 — How to type
How to type the ☀️ Sun emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+2600 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Sun emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the sun as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Sun emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around sun 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
One code point, several readings — where the sun lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
☀️ vs 🌞 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Sun
Code: U+2600 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :sunny:
Generally, ☀️ means the sun itself.
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 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+2600 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
☀️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E63E, KDDI au E488, SoftBank E04A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Sun was approved as U+2600 U+FE0F 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.
12 — FAQ