The star-struck emoji is the internet’s built-in red-carpet reaction: eyes literally turning into sparkly gold stars, mouth dropped in a beaming WOW. It screams I’m dazzled—by a celebrity sighting, a crush, a stunning outfit, a flawless performance, or a jaw-dropping announcement. It shows up in fangirl/fanboy mode, thirst replies, K‑pop comeback chaos, movie-trailer hype, and that moment your friend’s selfie is serving main-character energy. It also gets used ironically when something wildly mediocre gets oversold—like, yes, Brenda, your microwaved mug cake is totally Michelin-worthy 🤩.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a bright yellow, front-facing face with two glossy, five-point golden stars replacing the eyes, tilted slightly outward like paparazzi flashbulbs. The grin is wide and open, with white top teeth showing and a deep maroon mouth, all shaded with Apple’s smooth gradient and soft highlights. Visually it reads instant admiration and glitz, like a cartoon character seeing their idol under a spotlight. Think Hollywood Walk of Fame vibes in one look—pure sparkle, zero subtlety, maximum WOW.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 23 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🤩 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🤩 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🤩 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🤩 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f929 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F929 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129321 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0xA9 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 A9 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 251 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD29 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd29 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56617 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F929 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F929 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129321 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F929" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\xa9" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD29" |
