🌅

Sunrise Emoji 🌅

The sun climbing over the horizon, rays fanning out across water or open land rather than a city skyline. Early mornings, new starts, and "up before everyone else" posts all reach for it, and on most platforms it's colored closely enough to 🌇 Sunset that the name is doing most of the distinguishing work.

What 🌅 means

A sunrise at the horizon, viewed from the beach, such that the sun's rays stretch out to the edge of the squared dimension of this emoji while creating a soothing reflection in the water below.

The 🌅 Sunrise emoji signifies daybreak. It suggests early morning, rising and shining, a new day to start something new, or a new day to let some sunshine in, anything. Since the sun is our source of life, this emoji can also signify life, happiness, gratitude, positivity, etc.

How and when to use it

If you're inviting over some friends and family for the Easter sunrise watch, then you can use 🌅 in that conversation.
A sunrise always has a positive connotation attached to it. So, you can use 🌅 while sharing positive posts, motivational videos, or just a picture of you with a happy quote in the caption.
You can also use 🌅 in the contexts of 'sunshine', 'ray of hope', 'sunlight', etc. Like, "Good morning, my baby sunshine 🌅".
If you're posting some 'sun-kissed' pictures of yourself or someone else, you can use 🌅 in that post caption. Remember the golden hours before you head out for those reassuring selfies.
While posting or reposting pictures and/or videos of the sunrise, 🌅 can be one of your emoji choices in the caption.

Other Names

🌅 Sunrise at the Beach
🌅 Daybreak
🌅 Daylight
🌅 Early Morning
🌅 Golden Hour
🌅 Sun Kissed
🌅 Break of Day

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › place-other
Codepoints: U+1F305
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :sunrise:
Keywords: morning, nature, sun, sunrise

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.