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U+2728 · SPARKLES

Sparkles

  • CodepointU+2728
  • NameSPARKLES
  • Emoji namesparkles
  • Decimal10024
  • BlockDingbats (U+2700–U+27BF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version6.0 (2010)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2728 (✨) is SPARKLES, a symbol in the Dingbats block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 6.0 (2010).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “sparkles”, in the Activities group, subgroup event. It displays as a colour emoji by default.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ✨

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 9C A83 bytes
UTF-1627281 code unit
UTF-32000027284 bytes
HTML decimal✨
HTML hex✨
CSS\2728in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2728
JSON\u2728
Python\u2728
Python\N{SPARKLES}by name
Java / C#\u2728
C / C++\u2728universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2728}
Go\u2728
Ruby\u2728
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(10024)
URL-encoded%E2%9C%A8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →
U+2722✢Four Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk U+2723✣Four Balloon-Spoked Asterisk U+2724✤Heavy Four Balloon-Spoked Asterisk U+2725✥Four Club-Spoked Asterisk U+2726✦Black Four Pointed Star U+2727✧White Four Pointed Star U+2729✩Stress Outlined White Star U+272A✪Circled White Star U+272B✫Open Centre Black Star U+272C✬Black Centre White Star U+272D✭Outlined Black Star U+272E✮Heavy Outlined Black Star