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U+26C8 · THUNDER CLOUD AND RAIN

Thunder Cloud and Rain

  • CodepointU+26C8
  • NameTHUNDER CLOUD AND RAIN
  • Emoji namecloud with lightning and rain
  • Decimal9928
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version5.2 (2009)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+26C8 (⛈) is THUNDER CLOUD AND RAIN, 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 5.2 (2009).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “cloud with lightning and rain”, 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+26C8 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ⛈

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 9B 883 bytes
UTF-1626C81 code unit
UTF-32000026C84 bytes
HTML decimal⛈
HTML hex⛈
CSS\26C8in content: "…"
JavaScript\u26C8
JSON\u26C8
Python\u26C8
Python\N{THUNDER CLOUD AND RAIN}by name
Java / C#\u26C8
C / C++\u26C8universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{26C8}
Go\u26C8
Ruby\u26C8
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9928)
URL-encoded%E2%9B%88percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
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