Is 🪋 officially approved?

Not yet. It's part of the Emoji 18.0 draft candidate set, targeted for September 2026. Unicode can still reject or modify it.

What does 🪋 look like without font support?

A bright fireball head trailing a glowing yellow/orange tail, drawn at a diagonal angle. Typically set against a dark background in vendor drafts to emphasize the glow.

When is the next big meteor shower I can use 🪋 for?

Major annual showers: Perseids peak around August 12 each year, Geminids around December 13, Quadrantids around January 3. The Lyrids in late April and the Leonids in mid-November are reliable smaller showers. Expect meteor-shower-watch-party posts to be an early use case.

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Meteor Emoji

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About Meteor 🪋

Meteor () is part of the Travel & Places group in Unicode. Added in Unicode E18.0. Type on GitHub and Slack to use it. Click copy above to grab it, paste it anywhere.

Works in iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Instagram, Twitter, Gmail, and every app that supports Unicode.

Often associated with meteor, shooting, star, and 3 more keywords.

Scroll down for the full story: meaning, trends, combos, and more.

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How it looks

What does it mean?

🪋 Meteor is a burning streak of rock crossing the sky, drawn as a bright fiery head with a glowing trail behind it. It fills a specific astronomical gap: Unicode already has ☄️ Comet (long orbital body with a tail of gas and dust), ⭐ Star (static), and 🌠 Shooting Star (which is actually a stylized wish symbol, not an astronomical body), but no way to represent a meteor, meteorite, or fireball crossing the atmosphere.

Expect usage across astronomy content (Perseids, Geminids, meteor showers), gaming (impact abilities), news coverage of notable fireballs, and as a metaphor for sudden impact ("career hit like a meteor," "meteoric rise"). The proposal specifically cites the jump in astronomy content on TikTok and YouTube Shorts as a driver: meteor-shower videos rack up millions of views and had no dedicated visual shorthand.

Meteor showers (Perseids, Geminids)Astronomy / space contentGaming (meteor strike abilities)"Meteoric rise / impact" metaphorEnd-of-world jokes

Sky objects in emoji, compared

	⭐ Star	🌠 Shooting Star	☄️ Comet	🪋 Meteor
What it is	Distant sun	Wish symbol	Icy orbiting body	Rock in our atmosphere
Duration	Years	N/A (symbolic)	Weeks to months	Seconds
Motion	Appears static	Streaks with sparkle	Slow arc with tail	Fast fiery streak
Use case	Favorites, ratings	Wishes, dreams	Rare events, sci-fi	Meteor showers, impact

Emoji combos

Origin story

Proposed in 2025 (L2/25-257) as a distinct astronomical emoji separate from the comet (☄️) and shooting star (🌠) that had been confusing users for a decade. Astronomy communicators had repeatedly flagged that there was no proper emoji for actual meteors, which are geologically different events. Targeted for Emoji 18.0, September 2026.

Often confused with

☄️ Comet has a diffuse, long gas tail and orbits the sun for years. 🪋 Meteor is a brief atmospheric streak lasting seconds.

☄️ Comet

☄️ Comet has a diffuse, long gas tail and orbits the sun for years. 🪋 Meteor is a brief atmospheric streak lasting seconds.

🌠 Shooting Star is a stylized wish/make-a-wish symbol. 🪋 Meteor is the actual astronomical object.

🌠 Shooting Star

🌠 Shooting Star is a stylized wish/make-a-wish symbol. 🪋 Meteor is the actual astronomical object.

What's the difference between meteor, comet, and shooting star?

A meteor is a piece of rock burning up in Earth's atmosphere, visible for a few seconds. A comet is a ball of ice, dust, and rock orbiting the sun, visible for weeks or months with a long tail. A shooting star is the colloquial name for a meteor, but the 🌠 emoji specifically represents the "make a wish" cultural symbol rather than the astronomical event. 🪋 fills the astronomical-meteor gap.

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