Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
🌟Glowing Star Emoji
Generally, 🌟 means something is amazing, brilliant, or wonderful. People use it to show excitement or appreciation in a text.
The 🌟 emoji represents a glowing star.
- Unicode
- U+1F31F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :star2:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🌟 Glowing Star emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 8.
02 — Platforms
Glowing Star emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F31F. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Glowing Star emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :star2:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F31F.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🌟 Glowing Star emoji
No picker to hand? The glowing star can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Glowing Star emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Glowing Star emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around glowing star for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🌟, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🌟 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the glowing star and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🌟 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the glowing star lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the 🌟 Glowing Star emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F31F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🌟 existed there as
KDDI au E48B, SoftBank E335.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Glowing Star was approved as U+1F31F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🌟 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ