What 🤩 means
🤩 is the star-struck emoji, filed under Smileys & Emotion in the face-affection subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 5.0 (2017) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 10.0 (2017).
How it is encoded
🤩 is a single code point, U+1F929.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Safe hype for a boss's announcement or a stranger's good news. Stuck on every message, it starts to sound like an advert.
Don't confuse it with
2Worth knowing
- Before becoming a standard emoji, this face was a Facebook feelings sticker labelled “excited”; Unicode's 2016 proposal for new faces cited it.
Questions people ask
1What does 🤩 mean from a girl?
It depends on what it answers. On news, a link or a photo of something, it's excitement about that. On a selfie, it's a compliment to you; whether it's flirting depends on your history, not the stars.
How to type 🤩
:star-struck:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.🤩Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.