U+2600 · emoji since 2010
The sun is good weather and good moods in one bright circle. It forecasts beach days, opens cheerful good mornings, and celebrates the first warm day of the year.
It's also a compliment: calling someone sunshine never goes out of style. Vitamin D, delivered digitally.
In texting, ☀️ does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and ☀️ is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Sun emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the sun emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The ☀️ leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.