Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
⭐Star Emoji
Generally, it means “amazing” or “cool.” People use it to show they think something is great, like a good song or a nice surprise.
The star emoji ⭐ represents a star in the sky.
- Unicode
- U+2B50
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :star:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ⭐ Star emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Star emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the star has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
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 :star:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the star, code point U+2B50.
04 — How to type
How to type the ⭐ Star emoji
No picker to hand? The star can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
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
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Star emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
What ⭐ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+2B50, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
⭐ vs 🤩 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Star
Code: U+2B50 · added 2010
Shortcode: :star:
Generally, it means “amazing” or “cool.”
Unicode name: Star-struck
Code: U+1F929 · added 2017
Shortcode: :star-struck:
Generally, when someone sends you 🤩, they’re just expressing that they think something is awesome and they want to share that excitement with you.
12 — History
Where the ⭐ 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+2B50 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 E32F.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Star was approved as U+2B50 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.
13 — FAQ