Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
🌠Shooting Star Emoji
Generally, 🌠 means wishing someone well or expressing that something feels special and exciting. It’s often used to add a bit of sparkle to a conversation.
The 🌠 emoji represents a shooting star.
- Unicode
- U+1F320
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :stars:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🌠 Shooting Star emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
02 — Platforms
Shooting Star emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the shooting star has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Shooting Star emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :stars:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F320.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🌠 Shooting Star emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F320 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Shooting Star emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the shooting star as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Shooting Star emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around shooting 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 for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🌠 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the shooting star and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🌠 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F320, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — History
Where the 🌠 Shooting 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+1F320 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 E468.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Shooting Star was approved as U+1F320 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.
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