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U+2600 · BLACK SUN WITH RAYS

Black Sun with Rays

  • CodepointU+2600
  • NameBLACK SUN WITH RAYS
  • Emoji namesun
  • Decimal9728
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2600 (☀) is BLACK SUN WITH RAYS, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “sun”, in the Travel & Places group, subgroup sky & weather. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+2600 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ☀

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 98 803 bytes
UTF-1626001 code unit
UTF-32000026004 bytes
HTML decimal☀
HTML hex☀
CSS\2600in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2600
JSON\u2600
Python\u2600
Python\N{BLACK SUN WITH RAYS}by name
Java / C#\u2600
C / C++\u2600universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2600}
Go\u2600
Ruby\u2600
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9728)
URL-encoded%E2%98%80percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
U+2601☁Cloud U+2602☂Umbrella U+2603☃Snowman U+2604☄Comet U+2605★Black Star U+2606☆White Star