Crystal Ball Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Crystal ball is U+1F52E, Emoji 0.6, in the group Activities, subgroup game, between Pool 8 ball and Magic wand. CLDR gives it ten words (ball, crystal, fairy, fairytale, fantasy, fortune, future, magic, tale, tool), none of them a colour; it is the only emoji filed under crystal, the only one under future and the only one under both magic and ball. CLDR files four emoji under fortune and none of them is a person; no emoji is named or filed under orb or mystic, and the one emoji named for purple and a circle is Purple circle. Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): one name holds the word crystal. U+1F52E dates from Unicode 6.0 by DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt) and has no text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. The two Han characters are defined as in the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). That some apps take decimal Alt numbers from 256 to 65,535 is from Wikipedia, Alt code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code). What a crystal ball is, its figurative sense, and the words and sayings are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0): crystal ball (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crystal_ball), orb (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orb), crystal-gazing (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crystal-gazing), fortune teller (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fortune_teller), prediction (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prediction), seer (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seer), soothsayer (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soothsayer), foresight (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foresight), hunch (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hunch), crystal clear (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crystal_clear), written in the stars (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/written_in_the_stars), time will tell (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/time_will_tell), mark my words (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mark_my_words), call it (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/call_it), foregone conclusion (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foregone_conclusion), plot twist (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plot_twist), snow globe (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snow_globe). The five typed crystal balls, the two drawings, the nine lines and the fourteen combos are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, with definitions from the Unihan database, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.