Star-Struck Emoji
Eyes replaced by stars — dazzled, thrilled or genuinely impressed.
Try Star-Struck emoji
Edit the text, then change the size.
Meaning & usage
What does the Star-Struck emoji mean?
Eyes replaced by stars — dazzled, thrilled or genuinely impressed.
Dazzled and enthusiastic. Because the stars replace the eyes entirely, it reads as a stronger reaction than a simple smile and works well as a compliment.
How to use 🤩 naturally
Reacting to news, talent and anything that exceeded expectations.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 🤩
- 2017
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Star-Struck was first defined as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. One of the steady annual widenings of the vocabulary.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Eyes replaced by stars and a wide open grin, the cartoon device for being dazzled. Stars mean impressed where hearts would mean attracted.
- Today
How its use evolved
Reacting to news, talent and anything that exceeded expectations.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🤩 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
That performance was unreal 🤩
New album on repeat 🤩
You built this in a weekend? 🤩
When to use it
Using 🤩 clearly
Reacting to news, talent and anything that exceeded expectations. It lands as star struck emoji or 🤩 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the star-struck emoji
What does 🤩 mean in a text message?
Eyes replaced by stars — dazzled, thrilled or genuinely impressed. Dazzled and enthusiastic. Because the stars replace the eyes entirely, it reads as a stronger reaction than a simple smile and works well as a compliment.
Is 🤩 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are star struck emoji, 🤩 meaning, star eyes emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤩 look different on another device?
U+1F929 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the star-struck emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🤩 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the star-struck emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🤩 as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
Easily confused
🤩 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Star-Struck or Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes?
😍 is drawn to something. 🤩 is impressed by it, which makes it the better fit for talent and achievement.
For developers
🤩 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F929 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🤩 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤩 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F929 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F929} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%A9 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F929
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- star struck emoji🤩 meaningstar eyes emoji
Put it in a message
When 🤩 is the right choice
Keep browsing