Sun
Sun has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ☉
- Unicode
- U+2609
About this symbol
A circle with a dot in the middle has stood for the Sun since antiquity. Astronomers still write it as a subscript, so M☉ means one solar mass. Alchemists used the same sign for gold, the metal they paired with the Sun.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SUN
- Also called
- Alchemical symbol for gold
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Weather and astrological symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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