The shooting star emoji is your pocket-sized meteor moment: a bright five-point golden star blazing by with a curvy light trail that screams whoosh. On Apple/iOS, it leans diagonally like it just sped across the screen, with a warm yellow-to-orange gradient, a glossy highlight, and tiny sparkly bits riding shotgun on the tail. It looks magical more than scientific—definitely a wish-maker vibe, not a chunky comet rock—so people use it for luck, dreams, and those blink-and-you-miss-it wins. Think: new job secured, last slice obtained, or that perfect one-take selfie.
Online, it doubles as applause with glitter: “you’re a star,” “main character energy,” or “achievement unlocked,” all with a twinkle. It drops into captions for night-sky pics, manifestation posts, and the universally known “make a wish” moment—bonus nostalgia if you hum Disney’s When You Wish Upon a Star. It also has a deliciously petty side: paired with a deadpan text to say “wow, amazing” when something is... not. Meme historians feel the Bag Raiders Shooting Stars montage in their bones, so it’s perfect for chaotic-fall-into-space jokes and TikTok glow-up transitions. During meteor showers like the Perseids, this emoji practically becomes astronomy cosplay, and yes, it’s flirty too: a sparkly way to say “you’re my wish come true.”
Definition
A star that is shooting through the night sky. A shooting star, however, isn't really a star. A shooting star is a space rock (meteoroid) burning up in the Earth's atmosphere. A star is a sun or planet that is really far away. Sometimes a planet can look like a star when the light from a star (sun) reflects off the surface of the planet.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
The star is obviously shooting. This icon was moved from the keyboard in iOS 5 and the old icon became "Night with Stars" while this icon remains "Shooting Star".. Or perhaps is it the other way around and I was confused to begin with? Either way this is a completely different emoji. I rest my case.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Moon, Sun, and Star Symbols
Names & Annotations
SHOOTING STAR Temporary Notes: Animated glowing star in blue color
Symbol Information
U+1F320 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-B6A
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
☆彡
KDDI
#75 星３ U+E468 SJIS-F640 JIS-7521
Softbank
☆彡
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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)
1f320
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F320
Decimal Code Point(s)
127776
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0xA0
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8C A0
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 214 240
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF20
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf20
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57120
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F320
UTF-32 Hex
01F320
UTF-32 Dec
127776
Python Src
u"\U0001F320"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8c\xa0"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF20"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
