CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files two emoji under summer: a beer mug and a speedboat. Neither is the sun. So Sun sits first of 75 tiles, U+2600, with the official two close behind. That is summer emojis copy and paste, sunscreen included.
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What CLDR thinks summer is
The speedboat also answers to lake, luxury and billionaire, and the beer mug to octoberfest. Sun gets sunny, bright and rays. CLDR files 13 emoji under beach, three of them surfers and two of them whales. Umbrella on ground is not one, although Unicode's own notes call it bathing beach.
Words with no emoji
No emoji is named for a popsicle or a sandcastle, and CLDR files nothing under lemonade or vacation. Summer text art draws the first two and the combo Lemonade, some assembly supplies the parts. Typing vacation or holiday finds eight tiles we tagged ourselves. Ask CLDR for holiday and it offers three members of the Claus family.
Tips
Summer symbols copy and paste lives in Summer symbols, no emoji: βΌ is White sun with rays, and β is the one character named Sun.
The only character with summer in its name is a mahjong tile, U+1F027, in the same section. Whether it shows depends on a device's fonts.
Twelve tiles, Sun among them, have a text form: Text style makes them plain characters.
Questions and answers
Which emoji does Unicode file under summer?
Two. CLDR lists the word for Beer mug and Speedboat and nothing else. Sun with face gets beach, heat and sunshine, and Lotion bottle is the only emoji under sunscreen. Neither gets summer. We filed all 75 tiles under it here, which seemed fairer.
Is there a popsicle emoji?
No. No emoji is named popsicle or ice lolly, and CLDR has no search word for either. The nearest are Soft ice cream and Shaved ice; ice cream emoji has the rest. The Ice lolly in the text art is nine lines of ASCII.
Which tiles are safe on an old phone?
Safest summer emoji copy and paste: the border row in Hello summer lines, wave, shell, palm tree and sun, all Emoji 0.6. The newest tiles, Folding hand fan (Emoji 15.0), Melting face and Ring buoy (14.0), are an empty box on an older phone.
πΊBeer mugU+1F37A. The other emoji CLDR files under summer. It also gets octoberfest, which is a different season. Emoji 0.6.
π€SpeedboatU+1F6A4. One of the two emoji CLDR files under summer. It also gets lake, luxury, millionaire and billionaire, so it is somebody's summer. Emoji 0.6.
βοΈSunU+2600 U+FE0F. Not one of the two emoji CLDR files under summer. It gets sunny, bright and rays instead. Unicode's own name for it is Black sun with rays and its notes say clear weather. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.6.
πSun with faceU+1F31E. CLDR files it under beach, heat, shine and sunshine, which is more summer than the plain sun gets. Emoji 1.0.
Show all 75 things for summer (71 more)
Beach bag 12
ποΈBeach with umbrellaU+1F3D6 U+FE0F. Two search words in CLDR: beach and umbrella. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.7.
πBikiniU+1F459. CLDR files it under beach, pool and swim. Emoji 0.6.
π¦CrabU+1F980. Three search words in CLDR: Cancer, crab and zodiac. The beach is our idea. Emoji 1.0.
ποΈDesert islandU+1F3DD U+FE0F. Two search words in CLDR: desert and island. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.7.
π§΄Lotion bottleU+1F9F4. The only emoji CLDR files under sunscreen. It gets shampoo as well, so check the label. Emoji 11.0.
β±οΈUmbrella on groundU+26F1 U+FE0F. Unicode's notes call it bathing beach. CLDR does not file it under beach: it gets ground, rain, sun and umbrella. Emoji 0.7.
In the water 6
π€ΏDiving maskU+1F93F. CLDR files it under scuba and snorkeling. Emoji 12.0.
πPerson surfingU+1F3C4. CLDR files it under beach, swell and waves. It takes the five skin tones. Emoji 0.6.
πPerson swimmingU+1F3CA. CLDR files it under freestyle and triathlon, so it is taking this seriously. It takes the five skin tones. Emoji 0.6.
πRing buoyU+1F6DF. CLDR files it under float, lifesaver and swim. Emoji 14.0.
β΅SailboatU+26F5. The only emoji CLDR files under resort. Unicode's notes call it a marina or yacht harbour. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.6.
πWater waveU+1F30A. CLDR files it under ocean, surf and surfing. Emoji 0.6.
Heatwave 4
πͺFolding hand fanU+1FAAD. The newest emoji on this page. CLDR files it under cooling, hot and flutter. Emoji 15.0.
π₯΅Hot faceU+1F975. CLDR files it under heat, panting, red-faced and sweating. Emoji 11.0.
π« Melting faceU+1FAE0. CLDR files it under heat, melt and dissolve, and under sarcasm. Either works in a heatwave. Emoji 14.0.
π‘οΈThermometerU+1F321 U+FE0F. Two search words in CLDR: thermometer and weather. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.7.
Cold things and fruit 7
π₯€Cup with strawU+1F964. CLDR files it under juice, soda and malt. Emoji 5.0.
π§IceU+1F9CA. CLDR files it under cold, cube and iceberg. Emoji 12.0.
πLemonU+1F34B. CLDR files it under citrus and sour. It lists nothing under lemonade. Emoji 1.0.
πPineappleU+1F34D. CLDR files it under tropical, and under pina and colada. Emoji 0.6.
π§Shaved iceU+1F367. CLDR files it under dessert, ice and shaved. Emoji 0.6.
π¦Soft ice creamU+1F366. CLDR files it under icecream, serve and soft. Emoji 0.6.
πWatermelonU+1F349. Two search words in CLDR: fruit and watermelon. Emoji 0.6.
Evenings, tents and getting away 7
βοΈAirplaneU+2708 U+FE0F. CLDR files it under fly, jet and travel. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.6.
ποΈCampingU+1F3D5 U+FE0F. One search word in CLDR, and it is camping. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.7.
π‘Ferris wheelU+1F3A1. CLDR files it under amusement, park and theme. Emoji 0.6.
π§³LuggageU+1F9F3. CLDR files it under packing, suitcase and travel. Emoji 11.0.
π¦MosquitoU+1F99F. CLDR files it under bite and pest, which is fair. Emoji 11.0.
πSunsetU+1F307. The one over the buildings. CLDR files it under dusk. Emoji 0.6.
βΊTentU+26FA. Two search words in CLDR: camping and tent. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.6.
Summer symbols, no emoji 9
βDegree CelsiusU+2103 Degree celsius. Sign and letter as one character. Unicode's notes call it degrees centigrade.
βDegree FahrenheitU+2109 Degree fahrenheit. The same idea with an F. Sign and letter are one character, which helps in a short bio.
π§Mahjong tile: summerU+1F027 Mahjong tile summer. The only character in Unicode with summer in its name, and it is a mahjong tile, one of four season tiles. It is not an emoji, so whether it shows depends on the fonts a device has.
ζ΅·Sea, as a Han characterU+6D77. Unihan defines it as sea, ocean; maritime.
βΊStarburstU+273A Sixteen pointed asterisk. Sixteen rays and no disc. Unicode's notes call it a starburst. We call it a sun when nobody is checking.
ε€Summer, as a Han characterU+590F. Unihan's definition opens with the word summer, then adds great, grand, big.
βSun, the astronomer's signU+2609 Sun. A circle with a dot in it, and the only character whose whole name is Sun. Unicode's notes add that it is the alchemical symbol for gold.
βTriple tildeU+224B Triple tilde. A mathematical operator that happens to look like the sea on a calm day.
βΌWhite sun with raysU+263C White sun with rays. The outlined sun. Unicode's notes give its other name as compass. Not an emoji, so it takes the colour and size of your words.
Hello summer lines 12
β βΌ β βΌ βNo emoji: divider of suns and sea
πππ΄βοΈπ΄ππBorder row, mirrored around the sun
ποΈ Beach day πUmbrella first, sea second
βοΈ Hello summer βοΈSun at both ends
βΌ Hello summer βΌNo emoji: a white sun with rays each side
π¦ Ice cream counts as dinner π¦A ruling
π Long days, late sunsets πFor the evening photo
π΄ Out of office π΄An away message, between palms
π« School is out βοΈFor the last bell
π Summer mode: on πThe announcement
𧴠Sunscreen first βοΈA reminder, from the only sunscreen emoji
π₯΅ Too hot to function π« For the heatwave
Summer text art 5
Ice lollyNo emoji is named popsicle or lolly, so here is one on a stick: nine lines of plain ASCII, eight columns wide.
Palm tree on an islandOne palm, one small island and the sea, seven lines of plain ASCII, 15 columns wide.
Sandcastle with a flagNo emoji is named sandcastle either. Three battlements, a door and a flag, 13 columns wide.
Small boat, one sailOne sail, one hull and a line of sea, seven lines, 13 columns.
Sun with eight raysThe sun as keyboard characters, seven lines, 13 columns. It needs a monospaced font to stay round.
ποΈππBeach dayBeach with umbrella, then water wave, then spiral shell. Umbrella up, sea behind it, a shell to take home.
ποΈπ₯πCampfireCamping, then fire, then milky way. Tent, fire and what you can see once the fire dies down.
π§³βοΈποΈFlight outLuggage, then airplane, then desert island. Packed, airborne, arrived. CLDR lists nothing under vacation, so this is the long way round.
βοΈπ‘οΈπ₯΅π« HeatwaveSun, then thermometer, then hot face, then melting face. Cause, measurement and two effects.
ππ§π₯€Lemonade, some assemblyLemon, then ice, then cup with straw. CLDR lists nothing under lemonade. These are the parts.
π§Ίπ₯ͺπPicnicBasket, then sandwich, then watermelon. The basket is the only emoji CLDR files under picnic.
βοΈβοΈπSummer stormSun, then cloud with lightning and rain, then rainbow. Twenty loud minutes in the middle of a hot afternoon.
πππ€Surf reportPerson surfing, then water wave, then call me hand. CLDR files the hand under shaka and hang loose.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. The search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch). CLDR lists the word summer for two emoji, beer mug and speedboat, and not for the sun; the first group is the sun, the sun with face and those two. It lists beach for thirteen emoji, and umbrella on ground is not one of them. It lists sunscreen for lotion bottle only, shades for smiling face with sunglasses only, resort for sailboat only and picnic for basket only. It lists nothing under vacation, sandcastle, popsicle, lolly, lemonade, barbecue, sunburn or sprinkler. The beach, water, heat, food and outdoors groups are our own choice of what a summer caption needs. The text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. UnicodeData.txt has one character with summer in its name, Mahjong tile summer, one of four season tiles. The Unicode name of the sun emoji (Black sun with rays), its gloss clear weather, the gloss bathing beach on Umbrella on ground, marina or yacht harbour on Sailboat, compass on White sun with rays, alchemical symbol for gold on Sun, starburst on Sixteen pointed asterisk and degrees centigrade on Degree Celsius come from NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). The meanings of the two Han characters are the kDefinition values of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The 12 lines, 5 ASCII drawings and 9 combos are this site's own work: the emoji in them are fetched by name from emoji-test.txt and the drawings were made for this page. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work