The glittering flashes of sparkles. One of the world's most popular emojis, it is generally depicted as a cluster of three, yellow four-point stars, with one large sparkle and two small ones to its left or right.
Commonly used to indicate various positive sentiments, including love, happiness, beauty, gratitude, and excitement, as well as newness or cleanliness.
May also be used as .
As of late 2023, an icon similar to the sparkles emoji is also often used within tech platforms to represent a feature that utilizes artificial intelligence.
Both and sparkles were previously multicolored, while Samsung’s sparkles were previously depicted on a night sky, suggesting .
✨ Sparkles as a button users can tap to toggle between latest and top tweets on their timeline.
Similar emojis with less implied meaning include , , and .
| Emoji | ✨ |
| Unicode Name | Sparkles |
| Apple Name | Sparkles |
| Also Known As | Glitter, Shiny |
| Codepoints | U+2728 |
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | দযত |
| Danish | stjerner |
| German | funkelnde sterne |
| English | sparkles |
| Spanish | chispas |
| French | étincelles |
| Hindi | sparkles |
| Italian | stelline |
| Japanese | きらきら |
| Korean | 블링블링 |
| Marathi | चमकणर |
| Malay | berkilauan |
| Dutch | sterretjes |
| Norwegian | stjerner |
| Portuguese | brilhos |
| Swedish | gnistrande stjärnor |
| Tamil | ஒளரம நடசததரம |
| Telugu | చనన చనన మరపల |
| Chinese | 闪亮 |