Sun Behind Cloud is the Unicode character ⛅ at codepoint U+26C5 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

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How to Use Sun Behind Cloud

To use the Sun Behind Cloud 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: '\26C5';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u26C5' evaluates to ⛅. In Python source, write '\u26C5'.

The character encodes to E2 9B 85 as UTF-8 bytes and 26C5 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9925.

This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026