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⛅ Sun behind cloud
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⛅ Emoji meaning
A ray of hope, mixed mood, changeable or partly sunny.
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⛅ Meaning
What’s the weather forecast? The sky is full of clouds but the sun is peering from behind a cloud. Can refer to someone’s view of things, for example: You are optimistic (the sun is appearing) or pessimistic (clouds are gathering).
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Sun behind cloud vs sun behind large cloud; varying cloud cover, still ‘some sun, some clouds’.
Sun behind small cloud vs sun behind cloud; both partly cloudy day, only art style differences.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Sun behind cloud” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ behind + cloudy + weather
Keywords removed
- sun behind cloud
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ sun behind cloud
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ cloud + sun
