About Sun
Sun is the Unicode character ☉ at codepoint U+2609 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Sun
To use the Sun symbol (☉) in HTML, insert the
entity ☉ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ☉ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2609';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2609' evaluates to ☉. In Python source, write '\u2609'.
The character encodes to E2 98 89 as UTF-8 bytes and 2609 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9737.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.