Sparkle

Chispa

⁓ 2747 FE0E  text style ⁓ 2747 FE0F  emoji style

Sparkles and Snowflakes are obviously closely related.

Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
2. The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	1269 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture	Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:sparkle:
Keywords

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Dingbats
Unicode Range	2700–27BF
Unicode Subcategory	Stars, Asterisks and Snowflakes

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory	Geometric Shapes
Names & Annotations	SPARKLE Temporary Notes: Spark
Symbol Information	❇ U+2747 unified (Unicode 1.1)
Proposal Identifier	e-B77

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	#150 'Shining new' ぴかぴか(新しい) 「pikapika(新shii)」 U+E6FA SJIS-F99F JIS-795F
KDDI	#76 スパーク 「supaaku」 U+E46C SJIS-F644 JIS-7525
Softbank	#48 #old316 ぴかぴか 「pikapika」 U+E32E SJIS-F9CE

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 5 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	❇
UTF-8 Character Count	1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	❇
Decimal HTML Entity	❇
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	❇
Hex Code Point(s)	2747
Formal Unicode Notation	U+2747
Decimal Code Point(s)	10055
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE2 0x9D 0x87
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	E2 9D 87
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	342 235 207
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0x2747
UTF-16 Hex	2747
UTF-16 Dec	10055
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x00002747
UTF-32 Hex	2747
UTF-32 Dec	10055
Python Src	u"\u2747"
PHP Src	"\xe2\x9d\x87"
C/C++/Java Src	"\u2747"

Emoji Code Version	iOS 7 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	❇️
UTF-8 Character Count	2
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	❇️
Decimal HTML Entity	❇ ️
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	❇ ️
Hex Code Point(s)	2747, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation	U+2747, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)	10055, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE2 0x9D 0x87, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	E2 9D 87, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	342 235 207, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0x2747, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex	2747, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec	10055, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x00002747 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex	2747, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec	10055, 65039
Python Src	u"\u2747\uFE0F"
PHP Src	"\xe2\x9d\x87\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src	"\u2747\uFE0F"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)