Glowing star emoji 🌟
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F31F
What 🌟 means
Glowing star 🌟 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: glittery, glow, glowing, night, shining, sparkle, star, win.
Those words also drive emoji search: try glittery or glow on your phone to find 🌟.
On the emoji keyboard, 🌟 sits with the sky and weather (48 emoji) inside travel & places, which has 221 emoji, for example 🌠 🌌 ☁️ ⛅.
Will 🌟 show on my friend's phone?
🌟 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 🌟
To find 🌟 quickly, type glowing star into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type glowing star.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type glowing star in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type glowing star.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🌟 as one code point, U+1F31F: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F31F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🌟 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🌟 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F31F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F31F} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8C%9F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8C 9F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🌟 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | glowing star |
| Português | estrela brilhante |
| Español | estrella brillante |
| Italiano | stella che brilla |
| Français | étoile brillante |
| Deutsch | funkelnder Stern |
| Türkçe | parıldayan yıldız |
| Bahasa Indonesia | bintang bersinar |
| Polski | błyszcząca gwiazda |
| Русский | сияющая звезда |
| 日本語 | きらきら星 |
| 한국어 | 반짝이는 별 |
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All travel & places emoji →Questions people ask
What does the glowing star emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🌟 "glowing star" and links it with glittery, glow, glowing, night. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sky and weather subgroup of travel & places.
When was the glowing star emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the glowing star emoji?
To find 🌟 quickly, type glowing star into the emoji search.