✨U+2728
✨ Sparkles
Activities
Keywords
*sparklesparklesstar
What Sparkles means and when to use it
Aesthetic shimmer — clean, pretty, or emphasis
- Framing a product or a photo as polished and appealing
- Adding emphasis without adding a claim: "new post ✨"
Watch out The most decorative emoji in the set, and the one most overused by brands. Purely ornamental; it carries no factual meaning.
How to use it Click the copy button above to grab ✨, then paste it into iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack, Instagram, X or any text field. Emoji are standard Unicode characters, so they work everywhere — iOS, Android and Windows each draw them in their own style.
Display support This emoji was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010). It renders on iOS 6 and later, and on Android 4.4 and later — older systems show a box or a black-and-white glyph.
Design comparison
Your phone shows its built-in artwork. Below is how open-source emoji sets draw the same character (images are bundled with the site, no external requests):
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