Sparkles

Meaning and uses

Three sparkling stars. It marks something new, clean or special, and it is also used to add emphasis, or gentle irony, to the words placed between two of them.

Unicode details

✨ is the Unicode character named SPARKLES, code point U+2728, in the Dingbats 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 “sparkles”, 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 “sparkles”. 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 “sparkles”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2728, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ✨. In a CSS content property, use "\2728".