Also commonly known as Star Eyes or Wow Face, this excited smiley has a pair of stars for eyes. The starry eyes indicate excitement or wonder. The official name for the emoji is Grinning Face with Star Eyes and the smiling mouth is virtually the same as other grinning style emojis. Like other emojis, the presentation of this face varies greatly depending on platform.
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How to use star-struck emoji
Want to show your excitement for an event or piece of news? Then there’s little out there that can demonstrate that same excited feeling than the Star-Struck emoji. The face can either be used by itself or as a part of a longer message. Let’s say one of your close friends invites you out for lunch, to show your enthusiasm a simple Wow Face will suffice. The name of the emoji however almost indicates that you have encountered a celebrity or someone of significant fame. Let’s say you are at the local supermarket, restocking your current household food items. Over by the frozen pastries, you see your favourite pop star mulling over the croissants. This is a great time to pull out your phone and boast to your friends. Bonus points for a selfie with the star and the message: Omg guys like who I’m shopping with 🤩
History of the 🤩 emoji
Star-Struck was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 and later added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017. This makes the Star Eyes face one of the latest emojis to hit the web.
Codepoints | U+1F929 |
Shortcodes | -- |
Also known as | Excited Star Eyes Starry Eyed Wow Face |
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