A streaking meteor, splitting off from Comet's decade-long identity crisis — drafted for Emoji 18.0, expected alongside Unicode 18.0 in September 2026. Draft only: not yet approved, and no font renders it yet. Click to copy the codepoint anyway.
Meteor (, U+1FA8B) is a candidate emoji drafted for Emoji 18.0, the emoji companion to Unicode 18.0, expected to finalize in September 2026. It depicts a streaking fireball entering the atmosphere — and it exists specifically to fix a vendor rendering split that's dogged the existing Comet emoji (☄️) since its debut: some platforms drew Comet as a blue, sparkling ice ball, while others redesigned it as a red-hot rock mid-impact, two genuinely different concepts sharing one codepoint. Unicode's own announcement put it plainly: "wishing on a star and witnessing an extinction-level event are two entirely different energies." Meteor takes over the fireball meaning so Comet can settle back into a consistent blue-ice design everywhere. Because it's still a draft, no operating system, keyboard, or font currently renders it; expect a blank box or placeholder glyph until Emoji 18.0 is approved and platforms ship support, likely sometime in 2027.
The draft character itself — copyable today as a codepoint, even though no font can render it yet.
Already-encoded celestial emoji that Meteor is most often compared to, or accused of overlapping with.
Meteor isn't the only unapproved character in this release — these are drafted alongside it, equally unrendered until September 2026's decision.
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The Emoji 18.0 draft candidate that won the public vote.
Another Emoji 18.0 draft candidate — reassigned from a deferred Apple Core proposal.
The full draft slate of 9 candidates, ranked by public vote.