U+2600 "☀" Black Sun with Rays Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☀
U+2600 "☀" Black Sun with Rays is a symbolic representation of the sun, typically depicted as a black or dark circle with eight triangular rays emanating outward, suggesting light and heat. Despite its name including "black sun," the character is most commonly rendered as a solid black outline or filled figure in digital fonts, and it is widely used in weather forecasts, astronomy contexts, and as a general symbol for sunshine, brightness, and energy across various platforms and text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2600 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black Sun with Rays |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ☀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ☀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x98 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2600 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002600 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2600 |