Comet Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-10 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Comet is U+2604 U+FE0F, Emoji 1.0, in the group Travel & Places, subgroup sky & weather, after Snowman without snow; Meteor (U+1FA8B, Emoji 18.0) follows it and Fire follows Meteor. Comet's CLDR words are comet and space: it is the only emoji under comet, and 23 emoji are filed under space. Meteor's words are apocalypse, falling, fireball, gravity, rock, space and star; it is the only emoji under fireball and under gravity. Star is the only emoji under astronomy; shooting leads to Dizzy and Shooting star. Nothing is filed under asteroid, tail or orbit. Character names and headings are from UnicodeData.txt and NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt): U+2604 is the only character named for a comet and stands under Weather and astrological symbols. U+2604 dates from Unicode 1.1 and U+1FA8B from 18.0 by DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt); U+2604 has a text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt and is 9732 in decimal. The Han definition is from the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip), field kDefinition: U+5F57 broomstick; comet. Wikipedia, Comet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet): a small icy body of the Solar System, or an interstellar object, that warms near the Sun and starts giving off gases (outgassing), producing a coma and sometimes a tail. Wikipedia, Astronomical symbols (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_symbols): the comet symbol was used in published observations of comets, where it stood for the comet being discussed. Wikipedia, Alt code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code): some applications gave the matching Unicode character for numbers from 256 to 65,535. Wikipedia, Unicode input (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input): Alt+X replaces the hexadecimal number left of the cursor with its character. Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) has no emoticon named comet; its Shooting star row lists the comet among the matching emoji. The definitions of comet and meteor, the Greek origin of comet, the comet words, the sayings and the words in other languages are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0): comet (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comet), meteor (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meteor), coma (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coma), dirty snowball (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dirty_snowball), outgassing (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outgassing), periodic comet (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/periodic_comet), great comet (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/great_comet), perihelion (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perihelion), aphelion (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aphelion), meteoroid (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meteoroid), meteorite (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meteorite), meteor shower (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meteor_shower), bolide (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bolide), asteroid (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/asteroid), stargazer (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stargazer), wish upon a star (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wish_upon_a_star), reach for the stars (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reach_for_the_stars), meteoric (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meteoric), rising star (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rising_star), once in a blue moon (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/once_in_a_blue_moon), 彗星 (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/彗星), 箒星 (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/箒星), κομήτης (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/κομήτης), cometa (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cometa), comète (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comète), Komet (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Komet), komeet (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/komeet), kometa (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kometa). The three typed comets, the two drawings, the seven lines and the combos without a dictionary line are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definition is Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.