Excited emoji, copy and paste: 🤩 Star-struck, U+1F929, comes first. With it are the other emoji that Unicode's search words file under excited, the ones for hooray and yay, props for a countdown, typed cheers such as \o/ and combos.
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What is filed under excited
CLDR, the list of search words behind emoji keyboards, gives excited to eleven emoji. Some are plain: Star-struck, Partying face, Party popper, Clapping hands. Some are not: Grinning face with sweat, two hearts, a Ghost, and a person doing a cartwheel who also has a man form and a woman form.
Hooray, yay and woohoo
Hooray adds Raising hands, yay adds Grinning face with big eyes and woohoo adds Confetti ball. The rest of what those three words find is already filed under excited.
Star-struck is formally Grinning face with star eyes, from Emoji 5.0.
Where emoji are refused, \o/ is a cheer: a head between two raised arms.
The hands and the cartwheel come in five skin tones. The faces and hearts do not.
Questions and answers
Which emoji means excited?
🤩 Star-struck is the usual one. CLDR files excited under eleven emoji in all, with Partying face, Party popper and Clapping hands among them.
What does the star eyes emoji mean?
Unicode names it Star-struck, and its formal name is Grinning face with star eyes. CLDR files it under excited, wow and starry-eyed.
Is there a can't wait emoji?
No emoji is named for it. ⏳ Hourglass not done is filed under waiting and 🔜 SOON arrow says the rest. The combo Can't wait sets the star eyes before the hourglass.
How do you show excitement without emoji?
Type \o/ for a cheer: a backslash, a small o and a slash make two raised arms round a head. :D is a big grin. A run of exclamation marks does the rest.
All 41 excited emoji
Filed under excited 11
👏Clapping handsU+1F44F. Filed under excited and yay. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 0.6.
👻GhostU+1F47B. Filed under excited, and also under boo and silly. Emoji 0.6.
😅Grinning face with sweatU+1F605. Filed under excited and under nervous, which is often the same feeling. Emoji 0.6.
💗Growing heartU+1F497. A heart getting bigger, filed under excited. Emoji 0.6.
🤸♂️Man cartwheelingU+1F938 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. The man form of the cartwheel, filed under excited as well. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 4.0.
🎉Party popperU+1F389. Filed under excited, hooray and woohoo, all three. Emoji 0.6.
🥳Partying faceU+1F973. Party hat and party horn. Filed under excited and hooray. Emoji 11.0.
🤸Person cartwheelingU+1F938. A cartwheel, filed under excited and happy. Unicode's other name is gymnastics. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 3.0.
💖Sparkling heartU+1F496. A heart with sparkles, filed under excited. Emoji 0.6.
🤩Star-struckU+1F929. The excited face: stars for eyes. Formally Grinning face with star eyes. One of eleven emoji CLDR files under excited, and it also gets wow. Emoji 5.0.
🤸♀️Woman cartwheelingU+1F938 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. The woman form of the cartwheel, filed under excited as well. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 4.0.
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Hooray, yay and woohoo 3
🎊Confetti ballU+1F38A. Filed under woohoo, with Party popper. Emoji 0.6.
😃Grinning face with big eyesU+1F603. Filed under yay, with Clapping hands. Emoji 0.6.
🙌Raising handsU+1F64C. Both hands up. Filed under hooray, and Unicode's other name for it is banzai. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 0.6.
Can't wait 4
📅CalendarU+1F4C5. For the date you are counting down to. Emoji 0.6.
‼️Double exclamation markU+203C U+FE0F. Two exclamation marks in one emoji. CLDR lists bangbang. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
⏳Hourglass not doneU+23F3. Sand still running. CLDR files it under waiting. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
🔜SOON arrowU+1F51C. The word SOON over an arrow. CLDR lists omw. Emoji 0.6.
Typed excitement 11
!!!Three exclamation marks
\(^▽^)/Arms up, mouth wide open
:DColon, capital D: a big grin
d(^o^)bTwo thumbs up
o(>o<)oFists clenched, eyes shut
o(^o^)oBoth fists clenched
\(*o*)/Arms up, stars for eyes
\o/A head between two raised arms: a cheer
\(>o<)/Arms up, eyes squeezed shut
\(^O^)/Arms up, shouting
~(^o^)~Wriggling on the spot
Excited combos 12
😃👏Best newsGrinning face with big eyes, then clapping hands. The hands follow the skin tone.
📅🥳Big day tomorrowCalendar, then partying face.
🤩⏳Can't waitStar-struck, then hourglass not done.
📅🔜Counting the daysCalendar, then SOON arrow.
😅💗Excited and nervousGrinning face with sweat, then growing heart. CLDR files both under excited and under nervous.
🙌🎉HoorayRaising hands, then party popper: two of the three filed under hooray. The hands follow the skin tone.
‼️🤩It's happeningDouble exclamation mark, then star-struck.
🤸🎉Jumping for joyPerson cartwheeling, then party popper. The cartwheel follows the skin tone.
⏳🤩‼️Nearly timeHourglass not done, star-struck, double exclamation mark.
🤩💖So excitedStar-struck, then sparkling heart: two of the eleven filed under excited.
🎟️🎉Tickets bookedAdmission tickets, then party popper.
🎉🎊WoohooThe two emoji CLDR files under woohoo.
How this list was compiled: Names, code points, sequences, skin tones and Emoji version numbers come from Unicode's emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); item names are the CLDR short names with a capital. Search words are the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml, main branch). Text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt) and the names of plain characters 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). Two groups follow rules checked against the whole CLDR file: the first is every emoji whose search words include excited, which is eleven when the man and woman forms of the cartwheel are counted; the second adds the emoji filed under hooray (three), yay (two) and woohoo (two) that are not already in the first. Formal names (Grinning face with star eyes, Soon with rightwards arrow above) are from UnicodeData.txt, and the other names quoted as Unicode's (gymnastics, banzai) from NamesList.txt. The cheer \o/ and the grin :D are rows of Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons, wikitext read 2026-09-30), which glosses the first as a cheer and the second as laughing or a big grin. The eight upright text faces, the combos and their names are this site's own; nobody has standardised them. Licence: own work (the selection, the combo names and the wording are this site's own; emoji names, sequences and search words come from Unicode's data files and CLDR, under the Unicode License v3; facts from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in this site's own words and credited in source)