U+26C8 "⛈" Thunder Cloud and Rain Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⛈
U+26C8 "⛈" Thunder Cloud and Rain is a symbol that depicts a dark cloud with a single lightning bolt and falling rain drops, representing a stormy weather condition. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block and was officially introduced in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009. This character is commonly used in digital communication, weather reports, and emoji contexts to convey the idea of a thunderstorm, heavy precipitation, or a general sense of bad weather. Its design combines the visual elements of a rain cloud and lightning, making it a compact and recognizable pictogram for meteorological or metaphorical use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26C8 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Thunder Cloud and Rain |
| 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 0x9B 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26c8 |