Black Sun With Rays
U+2600☀Emoji or pictograph · decimal ☀
Weather Symbols Copy & Paste
Browse 97 weather symbols covering sky, season and weather marks. The Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block supplies most of them.
Copy weather symbols
97 characters and sequences. Choose an entry and it copies straight away.
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Weather Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
Here are 12 representative rows out of 97. Read the name before the shape. Each row also carries the hexadecimal and decimal HTML reference for the exact sequence.
White Sun Behind Cloud With Rain
U+1F326🌦Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🌦
Degree Fahrenheit
U+2109℉Symbol · decimal ℉
Heavy Chevron Snowflake
U+2746❆Symbol · decimal ❆
Square Cc
U+33C4㏄Symbol · decimal ㏄
Full Moon
U+1F315🌕Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🌕
Thermometer
U+1F321 U+FE0F🌡 ️Emoji sequence · decimal 🌡 ️
Cloud
U+2601 U+FE0F☁ ️Emoji sequence · decimal ☁ ️
Tornado
U+1F32A U+FE0F🌪 ️Emoji sequence · decimal 🌪 ️
Snowman Without Snow
U+26C4⛄Emoji or pictograph · decimal ⛄
Umbrella On Ground
U+26F1⛱Emoji or pictograph · decimal ⛱
Rainbow Flag
U+1F3F3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F308🏳 ️ ‍ 🌈Emoji sequence · decimal 🏳 ️ ‍ 🌈
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Weather Symbols: types, meanings and practical differences
Weather symbols provide compact cues for forecasts, calendars, journals and status updates.
Sun, sky and season marks. Good for forecasts, journals and seasonal notes. That amounts to 97 copyable values here — 77 of them one character long, 20 longer.
Names such as Black Sun With Rays, White Sun Behind Cloud With Rain, Degree Fahrenheit, Heavy Chevron Snowflake appear here, and counting every entry puts Variation Selector-16 (20), Snowflake (3), White Sun With (3) at the top. Single-character values span U+00B0 to U+1FA90.
Browse weather symbols by type
Emoji or pictograph
51 entries
Symbol
25 entries
Letter
1 entry
Emoji sequence
20 entries
What is actually in these weather symbols
Where weather symbols sit in the code space
Counted across U+00B0 to U+1FA90, the general-category split is symbol 76, letter 1.
How the official names cluster
Counted across the stored entries, the commonest name patterns are Variation Selector-16 (20), Snowflake (3), White Sun With (3).
Sequence construction
Of the sequences, 2 rely on a zero-width joiner and 20 on a variation selector; 4 code points is the longest single entry.
Narrowing it down
Watch out for Black Sun With Rays next to White Sun Behind Cloud With Rain. They are different characters: U+2600 and U+1F326. Emoji or pictograph is the safe default at 51 entries.
Save letter for when you mean exactly that. Want colour? Pick one of the 71 emoji.
Want it to match your text? Pick one of the 26 plain ones. Test the result in the real app before you use it.
The grouping here follows practical use, not Unicode's formal categories.
51Emoji or pictograph
Drawn by the operating system, not your font. 53% here.
25Symbol
Ordinary text symbols, styled by your CSS. 26% here.
20Emoji sequence
Several code points joined into one image. 21% here.
1Letter
Characters that are letters in some script. 1% here.
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Weather Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
Pick from 97 weather symbols on this page. 51 of them are emoji or pictograph. They come mostly from one part of Unicode: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. 26 are plain text. The other 71 are emoji, so your phone or computer draws them in colour.
How the 4 groups divide
Expect emoji or pictograph, symbol and letter. 51 sit under emoji or pictograph.
Encoding, and why coverage varies
They come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (45), Miscellaneous Symbols (28) and Dingbats (5). Across U+00B0 to U+1FA90, support gets patchy at the newer end.
The pair people mix up
Compare Black Sun With Rays with White Sun Behind Cloud With Rain. Same shape, different code point.
20 entries are sequences
Half-copying breaks 20 of these. Take the whole value.
Terms worth knowing
These words describe the shapes, uses and character families you will meet in this collection.
- Emoji or pictograph
- Symbol
- Letter
- Emoji sequence
- Weather
- Sun
- Cloud
- Rain
- Snow
- Storm
- Rays
- Behind
A quick choice checklist
- Match the meaning. Start with emoji or pictograph when that group fits your message.
- Read the name. Compare Black Sun With Rays with White Sun Behind Cloud With Rain before you pick by shape.
- Test the result. Paste the full value into the app, document, or profile where it will appear.
Weather symbols describe conditions and combinations
Forecast cues combine clouds, precipitation, wind and hazards. A scene emoji may be expressive, but operational weather information needs a written condition and time.
| Condition | Examples | Communication check |
|---|---|---|
| Clear or partly cloudy | ☀ 🌤 | State the period because a daytime icon does not describe tonight. |
| Rain and snow | 🌧 🌨 ☔ | Include probability, intensity or accumulation when decisions depend on it. |
| Storm and lightning | 🌩 ⚡ | Pair hazards with official warning text rather than emoji alone. |
| Wind and atmospheric events | 🌪 ☄ 🌈 | A tornado, comet and rainbow are distinct events, not interchangeable decoration in reports. |
Practical note: Use symbols as scanning aids in calendars and journals. For safety, transport or work planning, retain the full forecast from an authoritative source.
Related reading
Compare these choices with sun symbols and moon symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Unicode Symbols vs Emoji: What Is the Difference?. For a quick answer first, see what is the difference between a symbol and an emoji?.
Tip: Pair anything decorative with real text. That is what search engines index and what screen readers announce.
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How to use weather symbols
Copying stores text, so the value survives the clipboard intact. Paste it with Ctrl V, ⌘ V or your device's Paste command.
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Forecasts, calendars and journals
Start with Black Sun With Rays. It works nearly everywhere.
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Seasonal captions and invitations
When handling seasonal captions and invitations, the 51 emoji or pictograph entries are the obvious pool, and let visual weight settle the final choice.
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Nature-themed names and dividers
When creating nature-themed names and dividers, paste the complete entry — several of these are multi-code-point sequences that break if truncated.
Copy-ready weather symbols examples for forecasts, calendars and journals
Forecasts, calendars and journals
☀ Weather referenceSeasonal captions and invitations
☀ ☁ ☂Nature-themed names and dividers
☂ weather ☀05
How to type these weather symbols directly
Copying is quicker, but these are typeable too. On Windows the alt code is the character's decimal code point; in Word the hexadecimal followed by Alt X does the same job without a keypad.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ☀ | Black Sun With Rays | Alt 9728 | 2600 | ☀ |
| 🌦 | White Sun Behind Cloud With Rain | Not available | 1F326 | 🌦 |
| ℉ | Degree Fahrenheit | Alt 8457 | 2109 | ℉ |
| ❆ | Heavy Chevron Snowflake | Alt 10054 | 2746 | ❆ |
| ㏄ | Square Cc | Alt 13252 | 33C4 | ㏄ |
| 🌕 | Full Moon | Not available | 1F315 | 🌕 |
Two limits apply to alt codes: a physical keypad, and a ceiling at U+FFFF. 37 entries here sit above that ceiling. A further 20 are sequences, which no shortcut reproduces — copy those instead. For the Windows, macOS, Linux and mobile detail, read the keyboard guide.
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How weather symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
Unicode keeps 58% of these in Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. The rest come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbats. 26 act like letters.
They take the colour of the text around them. The other 71 are emoji. Your phone or computer paints those in colour.
Unicode files the emoji ones under Travel & Places and People & Body. 20 are built from more than one character. 2 of those are held together by a hidden joiner.
Copy the whole thing, or it breaks apart. Some are as recent as Emoji 13.0, so old devices may draw an empty box.
A pasted entry is redrawn by the receiving application's font. Expect small differences in width and weight across devices, and larger ones where a font lacks the character entirely.
77Single characters
20Sequences
71Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with weather symbols
- 1
Mixing up Black Sun With Rays and White Sun Behind Cloud With Rain.
- 2
Thinking every one of the 97 works the same everywhere.
- 3
Copying only part of one of the 20 multi-code-point sequences instead of the whole value.
- 4
Reaching for one of the 71 emoji entries where a text mark was needed, so the colour artwork clashes with the surrounding type.
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Weather Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Black Sun With Rays and White Sun Behind Cloud With Rain?+
Different code points, similar shapes. Black Sun With Rays sits at U+2600 and White Sun Behind Cloud With Rain at U+1F326, so search, sorting and screen readers treat them as unrelated characters even where they look the same.
What is the HTML code for black sun with rays?+
Write ☀ (hex) or ☀ (decimal) to get ☀. Numeric references sidestep encoding problems in older toolchains.
Which weather symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+
26 of the 97 are ordinary text characters. They take the colour and weight of the surrounding font, which suits documents, code and interface labels. The other 71 are emoji and arrive as colour artwork you cannot restyle.
Why does one of these weather symbols split apart when I paste it?+
20 entries here are sequences of more than one code point, and 2 of those are held together by a zero-width joiner. If the destination does not support the sequence, or if the copy was truncated, the parts render individually. Copy the entry with the button rather than by selecting the characters.
Which Unicode block are these weather symbols in?+
Chiefly Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, which accounts for 45; the rest come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbats. That matters because a font either supports a block broadly or barely at all.
Will these weather symbols work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 13.0. Devices that have not received a font update since then will show a blank rectangle instead. Test on a real older device before using a recent character where the meaning matters.
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Learn more about weather symbols
Tools that pair with weather symbols
These marks are often used to head a seasonal note or a journal entry, which is where a styled heading or a text status frame is useful.
Cursive Text ConverterCreate script-style Unicode text while keeping a plain-text version for names, search and accessibility.Open the text converter →Loading Animation PreviewPreview text-only loading frames, pause the motion and copy the sequence that fits your interface.Open the animation preview →
Composing a finished design from these is what the Symbol Maker is for. The full set of converters, inspectors and previews sits in the Unicode tools hub.
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Sources for these figures
All counts derive from the 97 values actually stored for this collection. Rather than curating names by hand, this page reads them from the Unicode 17.0 database, and takes emoji membership from the standard's own data files.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data