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✨️Sparkles Emoji
✨️ is the sparkles emoji, U+2728 U+FE0F, one of 21 in the Events & Holidays set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for *, magic and sparkle.
What ✨️ sparkles means
Holidays and celebrations, plus a Japanese seasonal calendar most Western users never touch: 🎋 tanabata tree, 🎍 pine decoration, 🎎 dolls, 🎏 carp streamer and 🎑 moon viewing all came from the carrier sets. Elsewhere 🎉 and 🎊 announce good news, 🎃 and 🎄 do the two biggest holidays, and ✨ wraps a phrase in sarcasm or emphasis.
Unicode tags this one *, magic and sparkle and files it under Activities → Events & Holidays.
Copy variants
sparkles carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ✨️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ✨U+2728sparkles
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+2728 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ✨️ | |
| HTML decimal | ✨️ | |
| CSS | \2728\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2728}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U00002728\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u2728\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{2728}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{2728}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{2728}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9C%A8%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C A8 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 2728 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pyo77iP | |
| Decimal | 10024 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ✨️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “sparkles”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “*”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type2728and Enter. - HTML — paste
✨️.
How ✨️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- ✨️Apple
- ✨️Segoe
- ✨️Noto
- ✨️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the ✨️ sparkles emoji mean?+
✨️ is the sparkles emoji, tagged *, magic and sparkle. Holidays and celebrations, plus a Japanese seasonal calendar most Western users never touch: 🎋 tanabata tree, 🎍 pine decoration, 🎎 dolls, 🎏 carp streamer and 🎑 moon viewing all came from the carrier sets. Elsewhere 🎉 and 🎊 announce good news, 🎃 and 🎄 do the two biggest holidays, and ✨ wraps a phrase in sarcasm or emphasis.
What is the Unicode code for ✨️?+
sparkles is U+2728 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ✨️, in CSS \2728\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2728}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ✨️ emoji added?+
sparkles got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Events & Holidays in Activities.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ✨️ sparkles.