U+2728

✨ Sparkles

Category: Activities
Subcategory: Events & Holidays
Shortcode
Unicode version: 6.0 (2010)
Emoji version: 0.6 (2010)
Status: fully-qualified

What the ✨ emoji means

Three small sparkles. They mark something new, clean or magical, and — placed on both sides of a phrase — add ironic emphasis: ✨this✨ is how it works now.

Common in release notes, beauty and lifestyle posts, and as a decorative frame around a word. The sarcastic sandwich reading is now at least as frequent as the sincere one.

Chat examples

Will your readers see ✨

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

Apple always there
Google always there
Microsoft always there
Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the ✨ emoji is used

The ✨ smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how sparkles is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

Image size

✨ Your deviceNative system font
Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 💾 SVG
OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 💾 SVG
Twemoji CC BY 4.0 💾 SVG

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English	sparkles
Русский	блестки
Deutsch	funkelnde Sterne
Español	chispas
Français	étincelles
Polski	gwiazdki
Dansk	stjerner
Українська	блискітки
Português	brilhos

Unicode CLDR 48

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