Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack sun with rays
Unicode numberU+2600
CategoryWeather symbolsSun symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ☀, or U+2600, is known as "Black Sun with Rays". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The symbol visually represents a sun, indicated by a central circle, with several rays emanating from it. The sun and the rays are filled in black, hence the name "Black Sun with Rays". This symbol is often used to represent sunny weather in weather reports and forecasts, and is also frequently used in a variety of contexts to denote positivity, light, warmth, or the day time.

Encoding

HTML Entity☀
HTML Entity (hex)☀
URL Escape Code%E2%98%80
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x98 0x80
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011000:10000000
UTF-160x2600
UTF-320x00002600

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2600"
CSS Code\2600
JavaScript"\u2600"
Perl\x{2600}
Python 2u"\u2600"
Python 3\u2600
Ruby\u{2600}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ☀ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9728;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2600";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References