Sparkles
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- Shortcode
:sparkles:- Unicode
U+2728- HTML
✨- CSS
\2728- JavaScript
"\u{2728}"- URL
%E2%9C%A8
What ✨ means
Twinkling stars of different sizes. They add shine, magic or newness, and they also mark emphasis or irony when wrapped around words, as in ✨self-care✨.
Common for fresh starts, a clean room, a new haircut or good vibes, and as decoration in captions and bios. The ✨word✨ style can be sincere or mocking, so tone matters. Many apps use a sparkle icon for AI features, so people also link ✨ with AI.
Facts
Sparkles ✨ is an emoji in the activities category, under event. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :sparkles:. People also look for it with words like “*”, “magic”, “sparkle”, or “star”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2017
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.