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See also: [U+A668 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER MONOCULAR O], [U+A669 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER MONOCULAR O], ʘ [U+0298 LATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK], 𐍈 [U+10348 GOTHIC LETTER HWAIR], [U+2D59 TIFINAGH LETTER YAS], [U+2299 CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR], [U+2A00 N-ARY CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR], and [U+25C9 FISHEYE]

U+2609, ☉
SUN

[U+2608]
Miscellaneous Symbols
[U+260A]

🌞 U+1F31E, 🌞
SUN WITH FACE
🌝
[U+1F31D]
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🌟
[U+1F31F]
Use of ☉ for Sunday, just under the sun (day) hand near the top of the calendar dial of this 13th-century clock tower.

Translingual[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Is astrology and alchemy (gold), a variant with a face: 🌞︎ is sometimes seen. This does not occur in astronomy, botany or (obsolete) chemistry.

Etymology[edit]

The shield of the sun god Apollo, with a boss in the center. Medieval replacement of 🜚, the sun with a single ray, which in ancient times had replaced a sun orb surrounded by multiple rays.[1]

Compare the Egyptian hieroglyph and the Chinese character , both of which mean 'sun' and 'day'.

Symbol[edit]

  1. (astronomy, astrology) Sol, the Sun.
    A subscript to variables in mathematical equations, such as π (solar parallax).
    • 1803, Robert Patterson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, volume 40 (in English), Princeton University Press, published 2013, page 71:
      Suppose the apparent angular distance of the sun & moon's nearest limbs [...] to be 110°.2′.30″ the app. alt of 's lower limb measuring 20°.40′ and that of ☽'s lower limb 35°.24′
  2. (astronomy) solar mass.
    Synonym: M
    • 1939, Oppenheimer & Volkoff, “On Massive Neutron Cores”, in Physical Review, volume 55:
      For masses under only one equilibrium solution exists
  3. (botany) annual.[2]
  4. (alchemy, archaic) gold.
  5. (rare) Sunday.
    Refers to the Latin phrase dies Solis, which literally means "Sun's day".
  6. (philately) cancellation (with an ordinary post-office cancellation mark).
  7. (chemistry, obsolete) hydrogen (Daltonian symbol).
    Technically, this should be red: . May also be typeset .


Presentations of 🌞︎
Text
style
Emoji
style
🌞︎ 🌞️
Note: Character's appearance
may be different on each system.
Text style is forced with ︎
and emoji style with ️

Synonyms[edit]

  • (sun, daytime):
  • (sun, gold): 🜚 (obsolete)

Derived terms[edit]

  • (astronomy): Msolar mass (as a unit of measurement for the masses of stars)
Lsolar luminosity (as a unit of measurement).
Rsolar radius (as a unit of measurement).
Ssolar constant (as a unit of measurement).

Related terms[edit]

  • (botany): (biennial)
  • (astrology): (Solar eclipse)
Planetary symbols
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See also[edit]

  • 𓇳 (hieroglyph for Sun)
  • (mathematics, computing)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jones, Alexander (1999) Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus, →ISBN, pages 62–63
  2. ^ J. Lindley (1848) An introduction to botany[1], volume 2, 4 edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, page 385–386

German[edit]

Symbol[edit]

  1. (cartography): city center