☀Sun symbol
A sun as text rather than a picture, used in weather notes and aesthetic bios.
Looking for the colour emoji instead? ☀️ Sun — same idea, drawn as a picture by each platform.
- Unicode
- U+2600
- Alt code
- Alt+9728
- HTML
- ☀
- Unicode name
- Black Sun With Rays
Where the Sun symbol comes from
This sun is a weather-map symbol. It comes from the set meteorologists used on printed charts for clear sky, which is why it is drawn as a circle with rays rather than as a face or a disc, and why it sits in Unicode next to ☁ ☂ ☃ — the rest of the same forecast alphabet.
It gets used where a colour emoji would be too loud: weather notes, plant-care labels, minimal bios, and headers that need a mark rather than a picture. Being text, it takes on the colour of whatever is around it.
Sun symbol codes
Four notations, one result: whatever you copy here comes out as U+2600.
How to type ☀ on any keyboard
Keyboard, code, markup or document — the route to U+2600 differs by tool.
Will ☀ actually show up?
We checked 147 fonts installed on a normal machine and counted how many of them contain this character. A symbol missing from a font is drawn as an empty box — the text is still correct, it just cannot be drawn.
Check before you rely on it. Plenty of fonts skip this character. It works in system UI and common documents, but a designed font may not carry it.
Symbols people confuse with ☀
Lookalikes that are not the same character at all — separate codes, separate fonts, and here they number 4.
Other marks and signs
The rest of the family, one page each — origin, typing routes and font support, across all 6.
Dingbats and signs
Stars, snowflakes, scissors, checkmarks — the printer’s ornament set.