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Shooting Star Emoji 🌠

Caught mid-fall, a star streaks across the sky with a bright tail trailing behind it. It's the wish-making emoji — 'make a wish' energy — and gets used for sudden strokes of luck, a dream coming true, or someone's career or glow-up suddenly taking off after a long, slow stretch of nothing happening.

What 🌠 means

A bright five-pointed star, much like the ⭐ Star emoji, streaking in from a distance and trailing stardust behind it against a backdrop of tiny stars.

Beginning with the fact that the 🌠 Shooting Star emoji is not a star, this emoji suggests a dragged streak of light entering the earth's atmosphere. On a superstitious level, this emoji can signify new life, good luck, fortune, and an opportunity to make a wish.

How and when to use it

Wishing upon a shooting star has been one of the much-loved superstitions of all time. So, if you're sharing content related to situations that welcome 'wishing' or even in contexts where you are making a genuine wish, you can use 🌠; a birthday post/repost, a text message wishing the best for the other person, etc.
An example of the previous usecase - "Happy birthday!!! May you alwayssss be blessed with the bestest! 🌠".
Since a shooting star can represent a new life reaching planet earth, you may also use 🌠 in the contexts of a newborn baby, a congratulations message/for someone's parenthood, a personal post about one's pregnancy, etc. Like, "5 more months until Jr is here 🌠".
Use 🌠 in star gazing frameworks; a repost, a video, a picture, a news post, an artwork, anything.
A shooting star signifies approaching brightness. Baring this perspective in mind, you can also use 🌠 while sharing an appreciation post or a birthday post for that someone who brings light to your life, or even in captions/quotes that are about being/spreading the light.

Other Names

🌠 Falling Star
🌠 Comet
🌠 Shooting Meteor
🌠 Streak of Light
🌠 Approaching Meteor
🌠 Star Gazing
🌠 Wish Upon a Star
🌠 Meteoride
🌠 When You Wish Upon a Star

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › sky & weather
Codepoints: U+1F320
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :stars::shooting_star: Discord
Keywords: falling, night, shooting, space, star

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.