Glowing Star
A glowing, five-point gold star. Depicted as โญ 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 ๐ซ Dizzy, โญ Star, ๐ Shooting Star, or โจ 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.
Microsoftโs bursts were previously blue lines, Appleโs star previously resembled its โญ Star emoji, and Samsungโs 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.