A star emoji with sparkle lines radiating off it, the glowing-star emoji turns a plain rating symbol into something with more shine. It's used for genuine standouts — a highlight of the night, a person's big moment, the literal 'star of the show' — with extra sparkle to match the extra praise.
What 🌟 means
A five-pointed star, very similar to the ⭐ Star emoji with additional details of three short lines emerging from the gaps between the points (two on top and one below). Sometimes, it's from all five sides.
The 🌟 Glowing Star emoji signifies heightened illumination, brightness, glow, and shine. It also suggests a twinkling star, which can have both literal and metaphorical implications.
How and when to use it
- If you're responding to a picture of someone in a new dress, shoes, jewelry, and other materialistic beauties, or commenting on similar posts, you can use 🌟 to indicate "Damn, gurlll. You shinin'!!! 🌟".
- You can also use 🌟 while sharing posts or reposts about something or someone who set a new benchmark for any given attribute. Like, "Would ya look at my man wearing a skirt to empower equality 🌟".
- If you want to call someone or something a 'true star', 🌟 is an apt emoji. It can be a compliment for someone's story, a comment on an uplifting post, anything - "You sir, are the real hero, our true star 🌟".
- Similar to the first point, you may also use 🌟 in the captions while sharing pictures and/or videos of twinkling/dazzling jewelry, crystals, makeup (with the twinkling filter), anything that twinkles or is made to.
Other Names
- 🌟 Twinkling Star
- 🌟 Dazzling Star
- 🌟 Shining Star
- 🌟 Star So Bright
- 🌟 Guiding Star
- 🌟 Bright Star
- 🌟 Extra Bright Star
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › sky & weather
- Codepoints
U+1F31F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:star2::glowing_star:Discord- Keywords
- glittery, glow, glowing, night, shining, sparkle, star, win
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🌟 Glowing Star or 🪗 Accordion?
Runs with a crowd
🌟 keeps company in aesthetic emojis and cute emojis and space emojis and sparkle emojis and star emojis and yellow emojis and zodiac emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.