All 114 sparkle kaomoji hold a four pointed star or the trail *: somewhere. Faces throw them, wear them as eyes or cast them from a wand, and 14 are trails with no face. Tap one to copy it.
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Pick where the sparkle goes, then tap
Tap a tile and that face is copied. Groups go by where the sparkle sits: thrown from the hands, in the eyes, one each side, a single glint, then wands and bare trails. Search reads the labels: wizard finds four, deadpan finds six, (-_-)✧ among them, and did not work finds (∩T_T)⊃━✧･ﾟ.
What the trail is made of
The familiar tail *:･ﾟ✧ is five characters: an asterisk, a colon, Halfwidth katakana middle dot, Halfwidth katakana semi-voiced sound mark and ✧, which Unicode names White four pointed star. ✧ is in 94 entries and ✦, the black one, in 12. Both sit in the Dingbats block and neither is on the emoji list.
Tips
Typed kaomoji sparkles wanting only the sparkles? The last group has 14 trails with no face, ✧˖° among them.
Keyboard only keeps the 8 made of plain ASCII: the sparkle becomes an asterisk, a colon and a full stop.
Sixteen faces say it in Japanese. Wiktionary gives kirakira as glitter and doyagao as a smug, self-satisfied face.
Questions and answers
How do you make the sparkle kaomoji?
From a bracket, two arms and a tail. The arms are ﾉ, Halfwidth katakana letter no, the eyes are ◕, the mouth is ヮ, a small katakana wa, and the tail is *:･ﾟ✧. Tapping (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ above copies the whole thing.
What is the ✧ symbol called?
White four pointed star, U+2727, from the Dingbats block. ✦ is Black four pointed star, U+2726. The emoji named Sparkles is the next code point along, U+2728. It is on the emoji list, so no face here uses it.
Is there a sparkle kaomoji you can type on a keyboard?
Eight. The sparkle becomes *:. and the plainest is (^_^)*:. with nothing borrowed. \(^o^)/*:. throws them and *:.(^_^).:* wears a trail each side. The Keyboard only chip shows all eight.
(∩^o^)⊃--*:.A wand of two hyphens, a puff at the tip
(∩^o^)⊃━✧*:･ﾟA wand, mid spell
✧━⊂(^o^∩)Wand pointing left
(∩T_T)⊃━✧･ﾟThe spell did not work
With a Japanese word 16
(>_<)✧ 眩しいMabushii, dazzling, glaring, bright
(^_-)✧ きらりKirari, a sharp momentary glow
(^_^)✧ つやつやTsuyatsuya, shiny, lustrous
(^_^)✧ 掃除Sōji, cleaning. Hence the shine
(✧_✧) 宝石Hōseki, a gemstone
(✧_✧) 憧れAkogare, yearning, admiration
(✧ω✧) きらきらKirakira, glitter, glisten, twinkle
(✧ω✧) 新品Shinpin, a new or unused article
(✧∀✧) 素敵Suteki, lovely, wonderful, splendid
(✧▽✧) 綺麗Kirei, pretty, and also clean
(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ じゃじゃーんJajān, ta-da, the sound of a fanfare
(￣ー￣)✧ ドヤ顔Doyagao, a smug, self-satisfied face
(￣ー￣)✧ 完璧Kanpeki, perfect, complete
✦(￣▽￣)✦ 輝くKagayaku, to shine dazzlingly, to sparkle
✧(^▽^)✧ ぴかぴかPikapika, sparklingly, or of a thing, shiny
(∩^o^)⊃━✧*:･ﾟ 魔法Mahō, magic
Sparkles and no face 14
*:.*:.*:.Keyboard only: three puffs
*:･ﾟ✧The trail on its own, to put after a word
*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧The trail twice
.:*:.Keyboard only: the smallest shimmer
ᯓ✦Wikipedia lists this as a shooting star. Borrows ᯓ from Batak.
⊹₊✧Maths cross, small plus, then the sparkle
✦•·····•✦Two filled sparkles, a dotted line between
✦彡A filled sparkle with a kanji tail, falling
✧˖°Sparkle, modifier plus sign, degree sign
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*A loose trail, with one gap in it
✧･ﾟ:*The trail reversed, to put before a word
｡･:*:･ﾟ✧Trail with a run-up
･ﾟ✧Dot, mark, sparkle: the short tail
✧･ﾟ name ･ﾟ✧A pair with room between: swap in a name
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed into the page by hand. The 114 entries are this site's own selection and arrangement: each was put together for this page from the parts a kaomoji is made of (brackets, eyes, a mouth, arms) plus a sparkle, which here means White four pointed star (U+2727), Black four pointed star (U+2726) or the trail made of an asterisk and a colon. Some are forms in common use that nobody owns, (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ first among them. Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons, read 2026-09-19) records ᯓ✦ beside ☆彡 and ☆ミ as Shooting star, and among its emoticons from a Japanese discussion board ｷﾀﾜァ*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･゜(n‘∀‘)ηﾟ･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*!!!!! as the girlish version of It's here; both are given as it has them. Its (^_-)-☆, a wink, holds a star and is left to the site's star page. Wikipedia's article Manga iconography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_iconography, read 2026-09-19) says that eye shape can be exaggerated or changed altogether, and that stars for eyes indicate that the character is star-struck. Wikipedia's article Kaomoji (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaomoji, read 2026-09-19) was read for the upright form. The labels, groups and order are our own. The Japanese words come from Wiktionary, each entry read 2026-09-19: kirakira, glitter, glisten, twinkle (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/きらきら); pikapika, glitteringly, sparklingly, and as an adjective shiny, glossy (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ぴかぴか); kirari, a beautiful or sharp momentary glow (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/きらり); kagayaku, to shine dazzlingly, to sparkle (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/輝く); mabushii, dazzling, glaring, bright (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/眩しい); kirei, pretty, gorgeous, beautiful, and clean (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/綺麗); suteki, lovely, wonderful, splendid (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/素敵); mahō, the arts of magic (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/魔法); kanpeki, perfect, infallible, complete (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/完璧); doyagao, a smug, self-satisfied face (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ドヤ顔); tsuyatsuya, shiny, lustrous (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/つやつや); jajān, representing fanfare, ta-da (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/じゃじゃーん); akogare, yearning, longing, admiration (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/憧れ); hōseki, a gemstone (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/宝石); sōji, cleaning, sweeping up (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/掃除); shinpin, a new article, or an unused one (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/新品). Every character of every entry was looked up in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and must be an assigned, visible character. Emoji are left out: Sparkles (U+2728), the next code point after the two used here, is drawn as an emoji by default in emoji-data.txt and is not in any entry, and Sparkle (U+2747) is on the emoji list and is not used either. White four pointed star is in 94 entries, Black four pointed star in 12, and the asterisk and colon trail in 38. The five character tail *:･ﾟ✧ (asterisk, colon, Halfwidth katakana middle dot, Halfwidth katakana semi-voiced sound mark, White four pointed star) is in 20. No entry holds a heart or a star character: the family gives those to the heart and star pages. "Borrows" under an entry names each character from outside the blocks of punctuation, common symbols and Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Japanese letters, with its script from Scripts.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Scripts.txt) or, for a Latin or common character, its block from Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt). "Is on the emoji list" names each character that has the Emoji property in emoji-data.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt). "Short" means 6 code points or fewer, spaces counted. "Keyboard only" means every character is printable ASCII. Nothing here says how any one device draws a face. Licence: own work