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Technical information

Symbol☼
NameWhite sun with rays
Unicode numberU+263C
CategoryWeather symbolsSun symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character "☼", or U+263C, is known as the "White Sun with Rays". It is part of the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block, and it belongs to the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The character is visually represented by a circle, symbolizing the sun, from which multiple rays emanate outward, creating an image that resembles a common depiction of the sun. This character is often used in various contexts to represent the sun or sunlight, good weather, brightness, or a positive and energetic mood. Its usage can also extend to graphical user interfaces, where it might be used to denote a light mode or sunny weather in a weather app, among other uses.

Encoding

HTML Entity☼
HTML Entity (hex)☼
URL Escape Code%E2%98%BC
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x98 0xBC
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011000:10111100
UTF-160x263C
UTF-320x0000263C

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u263C"
CSS Code\263C
JavaScript"\u263C"
Perl\x{263C}
Python 2u"\u263C"
Python 3\u263C
Ruby\u{263C}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ☼ in sentence and in bold like this ☼ and in italic like this ☼.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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100
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400
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500
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800
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900

HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9788;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\263C";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References