Sparkles is the internet’s built-in glitter cannon: the go-to for saying new, shiny, or magically improved without a whole paragraph. It’s perfect for glow-ups, freshly cleaned kitchens, new nails, or that post-facial radiance you swear is just water and eight hours of sleep. People also use it ironically by bracketing words like ✨self care✨ or ✨productive✨ to imply a little side-eye, and it nails the sarcastic humblebrag like so humble ✨. Expect it under thirst traps, makeup reveals, cleaning TikToks, and any before/after that screams ding!.
On Apple devices, it’s a trio of warm gold twinkles: one large four-point diamond star on the left with a soft gradient and fuzzy glow, plus two smaller four-point sparks hovering to the upper-right and lower-right, slightly tilted like they’re mid-twinkle. No face, no fuss—just glossy, beveled shine that looks like fairy dust, lens flare, and a toothpaste commercial’s tooth ping rolled into one. It’s flirty after a selfie, dramatic under a product drop, and witchy on Manifestation or WitchTok. And when something is absolutely mid, surrounding it with sparkles turns the joke up to 11—because nothing says totally special like excessive glitter with a wink.
Sparkling new. Also Meaning good and truth.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 11 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :sparkles: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Dingbats |
| Unicode Range | 2700–27BF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Stars, Asterisks and Snowflakes |
| Unicode Category | Abstract Concepts |
| Unicode Subcategory | Stars, Asterisks and Snowflakes |
| Names & Annotations | SPARKLES Temporary Notes: sparkling new |
| Symbol Information | U+2728 proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-B60 |
| DoCoMo | #150 'Shining new' ぴかぴか(新しい) 「pikapika(新shii)」 U+E6FA SJIS-F99F JIS-795F |
| KDDI | #420 きらきら 「kirakira」 U+EAAB SJIS-F37E JIS-795F |
| Softbank | #48 #old316 ぴかぴか 「pikapika」 U+E32E SJIS-F9CE |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 4 Code |
|---|---|
| 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) | e32e |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E32E |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 58158 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x8C 0xAE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 8C AE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 214 256 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE32E |
| UTF-16 Hex | e32e |
| UTF-16 Dec | 58158 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E32E |
| UTF-32 Hex | E32E |
| UTF-32 Dec | 58158 |
| Python Src | u"\uE32E" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x8c\xae" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE32E" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - 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) | 2728 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+2728 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 10024 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0xA8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C A8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 250 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x2728 |
| UTF-16 Hex | 2728 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 10024 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x00002728 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 2728 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 10024 |
| Python Src | u"\u2728" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\xa8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u2728" |
| Emoji Encoding | DoCoMo | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾭠 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾭠 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e6fa | eaab | feb60 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E6FA | U+EAAB | U+FEB60 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 59130 | 60075 | 1043296 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x9B 0xBA | 0xEE 0xAA 0xAB | 0xF3 0xBE 0xAD 0xA0 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 9B BA | EE AA AB | F3 BE AD A0 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 233 272 | 356 252 253 | 363 276 255 240 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE6FA | 0xEAAB | 0xDBBA 0xDF60 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e6fa | eaab | dbbadf60 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 59130 | 60075 | 56250 57184 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E6FA | 0x0000EAAB | 0x000FEB60 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E6FA | EAAB | 0FEB60 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 59130 | 60075 | 1043296 |
| Python Src | u"\uE6FA" | u"\uEAAB" | u"\U000FEB60" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x9b\xba" | "\xee\xaa\xab" | "\xf3\xbe\xad\xa0" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE6FA" | "\uEAAB" | "\uDBBA\uDF60" |
