Sparkles
✨ is sparkles. It adds magic, newness or cleanliness, and wrapping words in ✨ adds emphasis or sarcasm.
Common uses
DBEmoji editorial interpretation- Adding magic or newness to an announcement
- Wrapping words for emphasis or sarcasm
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- Unicode name
- SPARKLES
- CLDR short name
- sparkles
- Codepoint
- U+2728
- Hex
- 2728
- Emoji version
- 0.6
- Unicode version
- 6.0
- First released
- 2010
- Unicode group
- Activities
- Unicode subgroup
- event
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
GitHub shortcode
From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.
:sparkles:Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDR* · magic · sparkle · sparkles · star
Tags
How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
Download as image
Renders ✨ with your system emoji font into PNG, WebP, or SVG. Pick a pixel size, then download.
Note: PNG and WebP use the emoji font installed on your device (Apple Color Emoji on macOS/iOS, Segoe UI Emoji on Windows, Noto Color Emoji on Android/Linux), so the look matches your platform. SVG embeds the character as text — rendering depends on the viewer.
Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork
Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of ✨. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.
Questions people ask
- What does the ✨ sparkles emoji mean?
- ✨ is sparkles. It adds magic, newness or cleanliness, and wrapping words in ✨ adds emphasis or sarcasm.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for ✨?
- U+2728, named SPARKLES in the Unicode Standard.
- When was the ✨ sparkles emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 0.6, published in 2010, alongside Unicode 6.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type ✨ on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “sparkles”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy ✨ from this page with one click.
- What is the shortcode for ✨?
- On GitHub, type :sparkles: and it turns into ✨ — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.