A glowing, five-point gold star. Depicted as ⭐ Star with stylized bursts in between its points, representing glowing or twinkling.
Commonly used to represent various senses of glowing as well for as for a sense of flourish. Not to be confused with ? Dizzy, ⭐ Star, ? Shooting Star, or ✨ Sparkles, though their applications may overlap.
On Snapchat, this emoji displays next to a contact who has had their snaps replayed in the past 24 hours.
Microsoft’s bursts were previously blue lines, Apple’s star previously resembled its ⭐ Star emoji, and Samsung’s star previously displayed a burst radiating out from its center.
Glowing Star was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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? Glowing star