The 🌅 emoji shows the sun rising over the horizon, usually above water or flat land. It means sunrise, dawn, early morning, or the start of a new day.
It appears in good-morning messages, holiday photos, and posts about fresh starts. People also use it for sunsets because the small image is easy to interpret either way, so context usually does the actual work.
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