Glowing star

Meaning and uses

A yellow star with rays, the emoji for something shining or excellent. People use it to praise great work or to mark a highlight.

Unicode details

🌟 is the Unicode character named GLOWING STAR, code point U+1F31F, in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. It was added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is an emoji, listed under the name “glowing star”, so phones and most apps draw it in colour, and each platform has its own design.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type 🌟

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “glowing star”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “glowing star”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 1f31f, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use 🌟. In a CSS content property, use "\1F31F".