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<p>The glittering flashes of sparkles. One of the world&#39;s most popular emojis, it is generally depicted as a cluster of three, yellow&nbsp;four-point stars, with one large sparkle and two small ones to its left or right.</p>

<p>Commonly used to indicate various positive sentiments, including love, happiness, beauty, gratitude, and excitement, as well as&nbsp;newness or cleanliness.</p>

<p>May also be used as <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/its-not-just-you-the-sparkles-emoji-is-everywhere/">a form of ✨emphasis✨ or to convey sarcastic or mocking tones</a>.</p>

<p>As of late 2023, an icon similar to the sparkles emoji is also often used within tech platforms to represent a feature that utilizes&nbsp;artificial intelligence.</p>

<p>Both <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/sparkles/">Microsoft</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/sparkles/">Twitter&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;sparkles were&nbsp;previously&nbsp;multicolored, while&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s sparkles were previously depicted on a night sky, suggesting <a href="/sparkler/">firework sparklers</a>.&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="http://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1075074100412985345">Twitter&#39;s mobile app uses</a> ✨ Sparkles as a button users can tap to toggle between latest and top tweets on their timeline.</p>

<p>Similar emojis&nbsp;with less implied meaning include&nbsp;<a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>, <a href="/glowing-star/">🌟 Glowing Star</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/dizzy/">💫 Dizzy</a>.</p>

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Sparkles

<p>A yellow face with an open smile, sometimes showing teeth, and red, cartoon-styled hearts for eyes. Often conveys enthusiastic feelings of love, infatuation, and adoration, e.g., <i>I love/am in love with this person or thing.</i></p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/smiling-cat-with-heart-eyes/">😻 Smiling Cat Face With Heart-Eyes</a>.</p>

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Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes

<p>A yellow face with a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth on most platforms, with stars for eyes, as if seeing a beloved celebrity. Color of stars widely varies by platform, though commonly gold or red. May express that someone or something is amazing, fascinating, impressive, or exciting.</p>

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Grinning Face with Star Eyes

<p>Firework emoji, showing a explosion of colored light in the night sky, used for any number of celebrations such as <a href="/new-years-eve/" title="🎊 New Year’s Eve Emoji List">New Year&#39;s Eve</a>.</p>

<p>Colors vary by platform, and may include pink, purple, yellow, blue, and green.</p>

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Fireworks

<p>A pink love heart with stars around it, making it look like it is sparkling or shimmering.</p>

Sparkling Heart

<p>A yellow face with tears welling up at the bottom of its two large eyes.</p>

<p>May be used to express a range of emotions including sadness, anger, embarrassment, admiration, and gratitude.&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="/smiling-face-with-tear/">🥲 Smiling Face with Tear</a> and <a href="/pleading-face/">🥺 Pleading Face</a> can be used in some similar&nbsp;contexts.</p>

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Face Holding Back Tears

<p>A classic, five-point gold star.</p>

<p>Commonly used for various metaphorical senses of star (e.g., for fame, success, excellence, reviews). Also used for emphasis or flair. Occasionally used for astronomical stars.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/dizzy/">💫 Dizzy</a>, <a href="/glowing-star/">🌟 Glowing Star</a>, <a href="/shooting-star/">🌠 Shooting Star</a>, or <a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p><a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/star/">Samsung</a> and <a href="/facebook/1.0/star/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> stars were once silver.</p>

<p>See the glossary for the term <a href="/glossary/#white"><i>white</i></a> in Unicode character names.</p>

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White Medium Star

<p>A party popper, as explodes&nbsp;in a shower of confetti and streamers at a celebration. Generally depicted as a gold party hat, striped on some platforms, at a 45&deg; angle, with multicolored confetti and streamers coming from its opening at the upper right. Twitter&rsquo;s cone is red.</p>

<p>Like <a href="/confetti-ball/">🎊 Confetti Ball</a>, commonly used to convey congratulations and celebration, as on <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&rsquo;s Eve</a>, <a href="/birthday/">birthdays</a>, <a href="/wedding-marriage/">wedding days</a>, <a href="/graduation/">graduations</a>, and other special occasions or good times more generally.</p>

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Party Popper

<p>A glowing, five-point gold star. Depicted as <a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a> with stylized bursts in between its points, representing glowing or twinkling.</p>

<p>Commonly used to represent various senses of glowing as well for as for a sense of flourish. Not to be confused with <a href="/dizzy/">💫 Dizzy</a>, <a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>, <a href="/shooting-star/">🌠 Shooting Star</a>, or <a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p>On <a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a>, this emoji displays next to a&nbsp;contact who has had their&nbsp;snaps replayed&nbsp;in the past 24 hours.</p>

<p>Microsoft&rsquo;s bursts were <a href="/glowing-star/">previously</a>&nbsp;blue lines,&nbsp;Apple&rsquo;s star <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/glowing-star/">previously</a> resembled its <a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>&nbsp;emoji, and&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s star <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/glowing-star/">previously</a> displayed a burst radiating out from its center.</p>

Glowing Star

<p>A stylized representation of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_Star">shooting star</a>, a small, fast meteor that burns up in the atmosphere. Generally depicted as a gold, five-point star trailing&nbsp;yellow motion lines against a night sky, as if moving down to the left.</p>

<p>May be used for astronomical stars and other content concerning space. Also may be used for flair or flourish. Sometimes used as a visual reference to NBC&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_More_You_Know"><em>More You Know</em></a> public service announcement, popular in the 1990s and featuring a&nbsp;shooting star logo.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/dizzy/">💫 Dizzy</a>, <a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>, <a href="/glowing-star/">🌟&nbsp;Glowing&nbsp;Star</a>, or <a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p>Google&rsquo;s star was <a href="/google/android-8.0/shooting-star/">previously</a> trailed, without backdrop, by yellow lines, though these lines&nbsp;were blue in an even <a href="/google/android-7.0/shooting-star/">earlier</a> design. Microsoft&rsquo;s star was also previously&nbsp;trailed, without backdrop, by blue lines, though they were <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/shooting-star/">yellow before</a> that.</p>

Shooting Star

<p>A night sky with stars, depicted on major platforms as a <a href="/sunset/" title="🌇 Sunset Over Buildings">cityscape</a> at night.</p>

Night with Stars

<p>A cartoon-styled representation of <a href="/dizzy-face/">dizziness</a>. Generally depicted as one or more yellow stars swirling in a yellow or blue circle.</p>

<p>Resembles <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexicon_of_Comicana"><em>squeans</em></a>, stylized stars and circles over the heads of characters in comics and animation to show they are dizzy, <a href="/woozy-face/">disoriented</a>, intoxicated, or <a href="/nauseated-face/">sick</a>.</p>

<p>Commonly used for emphasis and flair or to indicate various positive sentiments. Like <a href="/shooting-star/">🌠 Shooting Star</a>, sometimes used as a visual reference to NBC&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_More_You_Know"><i>More You Know</i></a> public service announcement, popular in the 1990s and featuring a&nbsp;shooting star logo.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>, <a href="/glowing-star/">🌟 Glowing Star</a>, and <a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p>Facebook&rsquo;s design features two stars spinning along two intersecting purple circles, though it <a href="/facebook/2.0/dizzy/">previously</a> only featured one&nbsp;yellow ring. <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/dizzy/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> design previously displayed several yellow circles and stars.</p>

Dizzy Symbol

<p>A yellow face with X&rsquo;s&nbsp;for eyes and a round, open mouth. Often depicted with raised or furrowed eyebrows. Facebook&rsquo;s design features a purple forehead. Previously displayed with spiral eyes on <a href="/google/android-8.0/dizzy-face/">some</a> <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-may-2019-update/dizzy-face/">platforms</a>.</p>

<p>May convey a heightened or hyperbolic sense of such feelings as&nbsp;shock, surprise, disbelief, awe, and&nbsp;amazement, as if staggered to the point of disorientation (i.e., <a href="/dizzy/">dizzy</a>). May also represent <a href="/face-with-thermometer/">sickness</a>, <a href="/nauseated-face/">nausea</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/woozy-face/">intoxication</a>, and <a href="/skull/">death</a>, e.g., slang <i>I&rsquo;m dead!</i></p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/astonished-face/">😲&nbsp;Astonished Face</a>, which previously featured X-shaped eyes <a href="/apple/ios-8.3/astonished-face/">on</a> <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/astonished-face/">several</a> <a href="/facebook/1.0/astonished-face/">platforms</a>, nor&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-spiral-eyes/">😵&zwj;💫 Face with Spiral Eyes</a>&nbsp;which consistently displays spiral eyes on all platforms.</p>

Dizzy Face

<p>A wand with sparkles (✨<em>magic</em>✨) coming out of its end. Most platforms show a classic magician-style magic wand that&#39;s black with white tips. WhatsApp shows a golden magic wand tipped with a star, similar to the wand that Glenda the Good Witch uses in the 1939 film <em>The Wizard of Oz</em>.</p>

Magic Wand

<p>A person dancing, most&nbsp;commonly displayed as&nbsp;woman with one arm raised&nbsp;wearing a red dress,&nbsp;while dancing the salsa or flamenco. Often used to represent a sense of fun or as a positive affirmation, e.g. &quot;great! 💃&quot;</p>

<p>This emoji did not originally specify a gender, but was canonically deemed&nbsp;a woman&nbsp;when the&nbsp;<a href="/man-dancing/">🕺 Man Dancing</a>&nbsp;emoji was <a href="/emoji-3.0/">approved</a>. Google previously displayed this emoji <a href="/google/android-4.4/woman-dancing/">as a man</a>, then <a href="/google/android-5.0/woman-dancing/">a gender-neutral blob</a>&nbsp;character (in keeping with guidelines at the time).</p>

<p>Microsoft previously displayed this emoji&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/woman-dancing/">stick figure</a>, and Samsung has displayed this over various releases as a&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0/woman-dancing/">white boy</a>, <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-5.1/woman-dancing/">black boy</a>, and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/woman-dancing/">white girl</a>.</p>

Dancer

<p>A person who wields magical powers derived from supernatural or occult sources.</p>

Mage

<p>A man dancing, added as a gender pair for the <a href="/woman-dancing/">💃 Woman Dancing</a>. Shown on most platforms in a 70s-era suit, and one hand in the air in a disco-dancing style.</p>

Man Dancing

<p>A face showing a spiral eyes, commonly used to indicate dizziness, but may also represent hypnosis or other forms of disorientation.</p>

<p>Created to disambiguate an existing emoji which previously displayed spiral eyes on <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-may-2019-update/dizzy-face/">some</a> <a href="/google/android-8.0/dizzy-face/">platforms</a>, but X eyes on others.&nbsp;This emoji will consistently show spiral eyes on all platforms.</p>

Face with Spiral Eyes

<p>A sparkler: a form of hand-held firework often used at parties and celebrations. The sparkler is lit at one end, and&nbsp;held at the other.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Most platforms display this with the lit end held down, as is the style for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senko_hanabi">senko hanabi</a>&nbsp;(&quot;incense-stick fireworks&quot;) which is&nbsp;a traditional&nbsp;sparkler from&nbsp;from Japan.</p>

Firework Sparkler

<p>Often used as a decorative bullet-point, the sparkle has both a ❇︎ text and ❇️ emoji presentation available on most&nbsp;platforms.</p>

<p>Like with the&nbsp;<a href="/sparkles">✨ Sparkles</a>&nbsp;emoji,&nbsp;an icon similar to the four-point star design used to represent this emoji by several vendors (e.g. Apple, Microsoft) is often used within tech platforms to represent a feature that utilizes&nbsp;artificial intelligence.</p>

Sparkle

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<p>Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.</p>

<p>Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.</p>

<p>Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.</p>

<p>Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.</p>

<p>Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.</p>

<p>Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.</p>

<p>Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.</p>

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<p>Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.</p>

<p>Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.</p>

<p>Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.</p>

<p>Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.</p>

<p>Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.</p>

<p>3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.</p>

<p>Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.</p>

<p>Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.</p>

<p>A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.</p>

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<p>An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.</p>

<p>A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.</p>

<p>Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.</p>

<p>A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.</p>

<p>A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.</p>

<p>A licensable emoji design set.</p>

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<p>An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.</p>

<p>Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.</p>

<p>Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.</p>

<p>Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

<p>Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

<p>Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

<p>Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

<p>Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.</p>

<p>Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.</p>

<p>Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.</p>

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