A burst of light rather than a geometric star, officially named Sparkle, its points reading as a glint or a twinkle instead of a shape with countable spokes. That sets it apart from the flat, even arms of ✳️ and the tapered symmetry of ✴️. It suits anything clean, fresh, or catching the light: sparkling clean, a shiny new idea, glitter more than the sky.
What ❇️ means
A four-pointed structure with four curved sides, forming a white animated sparkle, printed onto a blunt green square. Sometimes, it is shown with decorative spokes.
The ❇️ Sparkle emoji signifies shine, glimmer, and anything that's sparkly. It could refer to something that's brand new, good as new, or even newly/recently cleaned.
How and when to use it
- Although ❇️ may sound similar to ✨ Sparkles and the 🎇 Sparkler, the use-case is lightyears apart. ❇️ is more of a 'button sparkle', given its button-like green background. Hence, if you're choosing or selecting something to be shiny or sparkly in any manner, you may use ❇️.
- Examples for the previous point are - "I always prefer my clothes to be crispy ❇️", "I love shoes that have that shine ❇️" or "You don't get to choose the people who come into your life, but you do get to choose how you treat them ❇️".
- You could also use ❇️ while sharing pictures and/or videos of a cleaning session; it could be a picture of your smartly cleaned wardrobe, a video of you cleaning your room, or even a post about how to clean your diamonds, anything to do with cleaning and shining.
- If you're jotting down a couple of points in your post/repost caption, and you wish to bring in some amount of aesthetics into the same, you could begin each of those points with ❇️.
Other Names
- ❇️ Sparkle Button
- ❇️ Green Sparkle
- ❇️ Shine
- ❇️ Sparkle Bullet Point
- ❇️ Sparkly Clean
- ❇️ Glittery
- ❇️ Glimmer
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › other-symbol
- Codepoints
U+2747 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:sparkle:GitHub- Keywords
- *, sparkle
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 — ❇️ Sparkle or 🚿 Shower?
Runs with a crowd
❇️ keeps company in green emojis and sparkle emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.