A city skyline silhouetted against a warm orange sky as the sun drops behind it. Its full Unicode name is literally "sunset over buildings", buildings included by design, where 🌅 Sunrise leaves them out. It marks the end of the day, golden-hour photos, and a certain wistful goodbye, wrapping up a story as much as an actual evening.
What 🌇 means
Like a postcard, this city scene has tall and short buildings in shades of maroon and brown with detailed windows, set against a bright sun just beginning to sink.
The 🌇 Sunset emoji represents sundown. It signifies completion; of the day or of one's purpose for the day, time to rest, a sense of gratification after a long day's work, and a beautiful time of the day.
How and when to use it
- Use 🌇 in the post caption while posting or reposting sunset pictures.
- 🌇 can also be used in contexts that are not exactly sunsets but resonate with the shades of sundown. It can be a work of art with sunset colours, a video with filters of these colours, anything.
- While sharing sun-kissed pictures from the latter golden hour, you can use 🌇 in the caption or text message if you're directly sending those pictures to someone.
- Since a sunset can also symbolize completion, you can also use 🌇 while typing out a social media status, story, or just a direct message about complete you feel. For example, "Productivity feels great after weeks of struggling mental health 🌇".
- 🌇 can be used even in sentences that have "at the end of the day" in them. Like, "It doesn't matter how much you do. At the end of the day you're just a perception 🌇".
Other Names
- 🌇 Sundown
- 🌇 Dusk
- 🌇 Nightfall
- 🌇 Twilight
- 🌇 Murk
- 🌇 Evening
- 🌇 Half Light (did you hear it too?)
- 🌇 Vesper (indeed)
- 🌇 Eventide
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › place-other
- Codepoints
U+1F307- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:city_sunrise::city_sunset:Discord:sunset:Discord- Keywords
- building, dusk, sun, sunset
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🌇 Sunset or 👩🦯➡️ Woman with White Cane: Facing Right?
Runs with a crowd
🌇 keeps company in orange emojis and summer emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.