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✨ Sparkles Emoji

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 a form of ✨emphasis✨ or to convey sarcastic or mocking tones.

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 Microsoft and Twitter’s sparkles were previously multicolored, while Samsung’s sparkles were previously depicted on a night sky, suggesting firework sparklers.

Twitter's mobile app uses ✨ Sparkles as a button users can tap to toggle between latest and top tweets on their timeline.

Similar emojis with less implied meaning include ⭐ Star, 🌟 Glowing Star, and 💫 Dizzy.

Emoji	✨
Unicode Name	Sparkles
Apple Name	Sparkles
Also Known As	Glitter, Shiny
Codepoints	U+2728

Similer Emoji

🎄 🎑 🎐 🪔 ✨ 🎉 🎃 🎫 🎋 🎍 🎏 🎁 🎟️ 🎆 🏮 🧨 🎇 🎎

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

Apple

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

iPhone OS 2.2

Nov - 2008

iOS 4.0

Jun - 2010

iOS 5.1

Mar - 2012

iOS 6.0

Sep - 2012

iOS 8.3

Apr - 2015

iOS 10.2

Dec - 2016

iOS 17.4

Mar - 2024

Google Noto Color Emoji

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

Gmail

Oct - 2008

Android 4.3

Jul - 2012

Android 4.4

Oct - 2013

Android 5.0

Nov - 2014

Android 7.0

Aug - 2016

Android 8.0

Aug - 2017

Android 11.0

Aug - 2020

15.1

Nov - 2023

Samsung

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

TouchWiz Nature UX 2

Apr - 2013

TouchWiz 7.0

Aug - 2016

TouchWiz 7.1

Sep - 2016

Experience 9.0

Feb - 2018

One UI 1.0

Feb - 2019

One UI 4.0 January 2022

Jan - 2022

One UI 5.0

Oct - 2022

One UI 6.1

Mar - 2024

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Glossy, gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

15.0

Oct - 2023

Microsoft

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10’s final update was in May 2019.

Windows 8.0

Oct - 2012

Windows 8.1

Oct - 2013

Windows 10

Jul - 2015

Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Aug - 2016

Windows 11

Oct - 2021

Windows 11 November 2021 Update

Nov - 2021

Windows 11 23H2

Oct - 2023

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

2.17

Oct - 2017

2.24.8.85

Apr - 2024

Twitter / X

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

Twemoji 1.0

Nov - 2014

Twemoji 2.4

Dec - 2017

Twemoji 15.0.1

Jul - 2023

Facebook

Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta’s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

1.0

Feb - 2014

2.0

Feb - 2017

3.0

Dec - 2018

15.0

Feb - 2023

Huawei

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei phones and tablets.

HarmonyOS 4.0

Aug - 2023

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG’s final mobile device.

Jun - 2014

Velvet

Jan - 2021

Animated versions of Apple’s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

Telemoji (November 2023)

Nov - 2023

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

Animated versions of Google’s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.

15.0

May - 2023

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

3D animated versions of Microsoft’s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

15.0

Apr - 2023

Skype

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Emoticons 1.2

Jun - 2015

Twitter Emoji Stickers

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter’s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

13.1

Oct - 2022

JoyPixels

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

1.0

Sep - 2014

2.0

Dec - 2015

2.2

May - 2016

3.0

Apr - 2017

3.1

Jun - 2017

4.0

Aug - 2018

5.0

Jun - 2019

5.5

Jan - 2020

6.0

Jun - 2020

8.0

Aug - 2023

JoyPixels Animations

An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

1.0

Jan - 2019

3.5

Sep - 2020

SerenityOS

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

2024-01-31

Jan - 2024

Toss Face (토스페이스)

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

February 2022

Feb - 2022

1.6

Sep - 2023

Sony Playstation

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device’s messaging functionality.

13.1

May - 2021

Noto Emoji Font

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google’s Noto Color Emoji designs.

15.1

Sep - 2023

OpenMoji

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd (Design University) in Germany.

1.0

Apr - 2018

15.0

Oct - 2023

Icons8

A licensable emoji design set.

14.0

Mar - 2023

emojidex

An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

1.0.14

May - 2016

1.0.33

Jul - 2017

1.0.34

Aug - 2017

Messenger

Previously used by Facebook’s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

1.0

Jun - 2016

HTC

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

Sense 7

Mar - 2015

SoftBank

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

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