U+2600 "☀" Black Sun with Rays Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Black Sun with Rays
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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common