U+263C
White Sun with Rays
About
White Sun with Rays, a single Unicode character. Part of the Historic & Non-Standard group, symbol subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 0.0.
Platform renderings
1 platform shown using your device's own emoji font. Their artwork is proprietary and this site does not redistribute it.
Timeline
2013 — 2026Showing 26 of 26 events through 2026
- 2013First render

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- 2014Redesign

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- 2016Redesign

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- 2020Redesign

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- 2022Redesign

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- 2022Redesign

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Encodings
- UTF-8
E2 98 BC- UTF-8 escaped
\xE2\x98\xBC- UTF-16
263C- UTF-32
0000263C- HTML decimal
☼- HTML hex
☼- CSS
\00263C- JavaScript
\u{263C}- JS surrogateFor pre-ES2015 targets
\u263C- Python
\u263C- URL encoded
%E2%98%BC- Base64
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Frequently asked questions
- What does ☼ mean?
- White Sun with Rays, a single Unicode character. Part of the Historic & Non-Standard group, symbol subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 0.0.
- What is the Unicode code point for ☼?
- White Sun with Rays is encoded as the single code point U+263C.
- When was ☼ added to Unicode?
- ☼ was approved as part of Emoji 0.0 and released in 1993, under Unicode 1.1.
- Why does ☼ look different on my phone?
- Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point, so ☼ changes depending on where you see it. This page compares 27 renderings, including Samsung and Generated.
- What category is ☼ in?
- ☼ belongs to Unicode's Historic & Non-Standard group, in the symbol subgroup.