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🌤️Sun Behind Small Cloud Emoji

Tagged behind, cloud and sun, 🌤️ sun behind small cloud sits in Unicode's Weather group inside Travel & Places. It was introduced in Unicode 7.0 (2014) at U+1F324 U+FE0F.

What 🌤️ sun behind small cloud means

Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.

Unicode tags this one behind, cloud and sun and files it under Travel & Places → Weather.

Copy variants

sun behind small cloud carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How 🌤️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

🌤U+1F324sun behind small cloud
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F324 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`🌤️`
HTML decimal	`🌤️`
CSS	`\1F324\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{1F324}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0001F324\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\uD83C\uDF24\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{1f324}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{1F324}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{1F324}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%8C%A4%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 8C A4 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83C DF24 FE0F`
Base64	`8J+MpO+4jw==`
Decimal	`127780 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Keywords

Appears in these collections

How to type 🌤️

Windows — press Win + . and search “sun behind small cloud”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “behind”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f324 and Enter.
HTML — paste 🌤️.

How 🌤️ renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🌤️Apple
🌤️Segoe
🌤️Noto
🌤️System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🌤️ sun behind small cloud emoji mean?+

🌤️ is the sun behind small cloud emoji, tagged behind, cloud and sun. Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.

What is the Unicode code for 🌤️?+

sun behind small cloud is U+1F324 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🌤️, in CSS \1F324\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F324}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🌤️ emoji added?+

sun behind small cloud got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🌤️ sun behind small cloud.