How to type Umbrella

☂ lives in the Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600-U+26FF), weather, astrology, religion, games and a wide miscellany. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.

What Umbrella is used for

Unicode publishes a second list of names for ☂ in CLDR, the keywords its own search data offers rather than the formal name, and they are clothing and rain. Those words are what somebody looking for this character is liable to type when Umbrella is not the name they know it by, and the search on the symbol lists matches them as well as the Unicode name.

What Unicode says about Umbrella

The standard recognises ☂ under another name as well: rainy weather. That is a formal alias, not a nickname, which is why it turns up in other people's documentation for the same codepoint.

The code chart points from ☂ to closed umbrella (U+1F302) and cloud with rain (U+1F327). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Umbrella looks nearly right but not quite.

How Umbrella behaves in software

☂ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.

Every way to write Umbrella

If ☂ arrives as ☂

Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 98 82 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.