Sparkles Emoji
Copy ✨ with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does ✨ mean?
Three small sparkles. Marks something as new, clean, special, or magical.
✨ is the sparkles emoji. It belongs to the Activities group, in the event set, and was approved as part of Emoji 0.6.
People also search for it as *, magic, sparkle, star.
How to use ✨
Used to decorate text for emphasis, and very commonly as ironic quotation marks: wrapping a phrase in ✨ signals gentle sarcasm — “it is ✨fine✨”.
Click the copy button above to put ✨ on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :sparkles: directly.
Good to know
The ironic-emphasis usage is now so established that it survives translation into plain text as asterisks or spaced-out letters.
Technical details
| Name | Sparkles |
|---|---|
| Character | ✨ |
| Codepoint | U+2728 |
| HTML entity | ✨ |
| CSS code | \2728 |
| Shortcode | :sparkles: |
| Category | Activities |
| Subgroup | event |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | *, magic, sparkle, star |