Sun behind large cloud emoji meaning

The sun behind large cloud emoji typically depicts a yellow or orange sun partially obscured by a large white cloud. The sun is usually shown as a circle with rays or beams emanating from it, and the cloud is usually shown as a large, fluffy, white shape. The cloud may cover a significant portion of the sun, such as the top, bottom or sides of it. This emoji is often used to represent a cloudy day, or indicate that something is obscured or hidden, and is not easily visible. It could also be used to express that even though there might be significant challenges or obstacles, the positive aspect of it still shines through. This emoji can also indicate the concept of hope, that despite difficulties the positive outcome still can happen. It is similar to sun behind cloud emoji, but the cloud is larger in this representation.

The sun behind large cloud emoji was approved in Unicode 7.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/11052