Sparkles Emoji ✨

U+2728

Emoji Meaning

Such sparks may symbolize a shine of something well polished.

The symbol “Sparkles” is included in the “Stars and asterisks” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Event” subcategory of the “Activities” category.

This text is also available in: Español; Русский;

Synonyms

Shine, stars, New Year, Christmas, glitter, shiny.

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Unicode Name	Sparkles
Unicode Number
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Dingbats
Unicode Subblock	Stars and asterisks
Unicode Version	6.0 (2010)
Emoji Version	1.0 (2015)
Emoji Category	Activities
Emoji Subcategory	Event
Emoji Name	Sparkles

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	2728
Simple case change	2728
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 9C A8	226 156 168	14851240	11100010 10011100 10101000
UTF-16BE	27 28	39 40	10024	00100111 00101000
UTF-16LE	28 27	40 39	10279	00101000 00100111
UTF-32BE	00 00 27 28	0 0 39 40	10024	00000000 00000000 00100111 00101000
UTF-32LE	28 27 00 00	40 39 0 0	673644544	00101000 00100111 00000000 00000000