Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
☁️Cloud Emoji
Generally, the ☁️ emoji just means a cloud. People use it to represent the weather or add a visual to their message.
The ☁️ emoji represents a cloud in the sky.
- Unicode
- U+2601 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cloud:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ☁️ Cloud emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Cloud emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+2601. 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
Cloud 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 :cloud:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+2601.
04 — How to type
How to type the ☁️ Cloud emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+2601 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Cloud emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cloud 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
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Cloud emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around 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 with ☁️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What ☁️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
What ☁️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the cloud lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
☁️ vs 🌤️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Cloud
Code: U+2601 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :cloud:
Generally, the ☁️ emoji just means a cloud.
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.”
12 — History
Where the ☁️ Cloud 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+2601 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 E63F, KDDI au E48D, SoftBank E049.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cloud was approved as U+2601 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.
13 — FAQ