U+2608 "☈" Thunderstorm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☈
U+2608 "☈" Thunderstorm is a typographic symbol representing a storm with lightning and rain, often used in weather-related contexts, such as forecasts or meteorological diagrams, to indicate the occurrence of thunder and lightning activity. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols block, a collection of pictographic and symbolic characters standardized for digital text encoding, and its design typically features a lightning bolt above a cloud-like shape, evoking the visual shorthand for severe weather conditions. While less commonly used in everyday communication compared to emoji variants like ⛈️, this character remains a functional part of plain text representation for weather systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2608 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Thunderstorm |
| 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 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2608 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002608 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2608 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |