U+1F506 "🔆" High Brightness Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🔆
U+1F506 "🔆" High Brightness Symbol is a graphical icon that represents a sun emitting intense light or increased illumination, often used to indicate settings for maximum screen brightness, radiant energy, or enhanced visibility in digital interfaces and weather applications. It was added to the Unicode Standard in version 6.0, released in 2010, and falls under the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. Its design typically features a sun with multiple rays, distinguishing it from the similar "Brightness" symbol, and it is commonly employed on mobile devices and software controls to convey a boost in luminance or a high level of solar brightness.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F506 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | High Brightness Symbol |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🔆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🔆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F506 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd06 |