Cloud

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Shortcode
:cloud:
Unicode
U+2601
HTML
☁
CSS
\2601
JavaScript
"\u{2601}"
URL
%E2%98%81%EF%B8%8F

weather

What ☁️ means

A white cloud. It means cloudy weather, gray skies or something dreamy and soft.

Weather updates use it, often with 🌧️ or ⛅. In tech it stands for the cloud: online storage and servers. It also fits 'head in the clouds' and 'on cloud nine' moods.

Facts

Cloud ☁️ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under sky weather. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :cloud:. People also look for it with words like “weather”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. cloud, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. cloud, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. cloud, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. cloud, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. cloud, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

travel & places · Unicode 6.0