Sparkles emoji meaning

The sparkles emoji shows three yellow stars, with one usually larger than the other two. This emoji represents sparkle, shine, or something that feels special or magical. People often use it to show excitement, magic, or a sense of something being clean or pure. It can also be used to make a message feel more cheerful or to highlight something important.

The sparkles emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026