The gem emoji is 💎, named Gem stone, U+1F48E, from Emoji 0.6. Unicode files it under clothing, straight after Ring, and CLDR makes it the only emoji under jewel.
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Gem, jewel or stone
CLDR gives Gem stone eight search words: diamond, engagement, gem, jewel, money, romance, stone and wedding. It shares gem with one emoji, Treasure chest, and stone with two, Rock and Curling stone. Wiktionary defines a jewel as a precious stone, a gem, so the jewel emoji and the gem one are this same tile.
One stone, many colours
Unicode has no ruby, emerald or sapphire: no emoji name and no CLDR search word holds any of the three. The tiles under Gems by colour put a coloured circle before the stone, each matched to Wiktionary’s definition: a ruby deep red, an emerald green, a sapphire deep blue.
Gem comes from the Latin gemma, which Wiktionary glosses as a swelling bud as well as a jewel.
Questions and answers
What does the 💎 emoji mean?
A precious stone, prized in Wiktionary’s definition for its beauty or shine. It also works as praise: Wiktionary records a figurative gem, any highly valued or precious person or thing, as in she’s an absolute gem.
Is the gem emoji a diamond?
Unicode names it Gem stone, not diamond, but diamond is one of its CLDR search words. Seven other emoji are filed under diamond, among them Ring, Diamond suit and Diamond with a dot.
Is there a gem stone emoticon?
This page has its own, typed with plain keys: <> is the smallest gem, *<>* gives it a glint on each side, and (<>_<>) is a face with gems for eyes. Two drawings cut a bigger stone.
All 48 items
Gem stone emoji 14
🪙CoinU+1FA99. Filed under treasure and gold. Emoji 13.0.
👑CrownU+1F451. Filed under royal. Emoji 0.6.
🔮Crystal ballU+1F52E. The only emoji CLDR files under crystal. Emoji 0.6.
🥌Curling stoneU+1F94C. Filed under stone. Emoji 5.0.
♦️Diamond suitU+2666 U+FE0F. Filed under diamond. Emoji 0.6.
💠Diamond with a dotU+1F4A0. Filed under diamond. Emoji 0.6.
💎Gem stoneU+1F48E. The only emoji CLDR files under jewel. Also filed under gem, diamond and stone. Emoji 0.6.
🔷Large blue diamondU+1F537. Filed under diamond. Emoji 0.6.
🦪OysterU+1F9AA. Filed under pearl. Emoji 12.0.
⛏️PickU+26CF U+FE0F. The only emoji CLDR files under mining. Emoji 0.7.
💍RingU+1F48D. The emoji before Gem stone in Unicode’s list. Filed under diamond and engagement. Emoji 0.6.
🪨RockU+1FAA8. Filed under stone. Emoji 13.0.
✨SparklesU+2728. Filed under sparkle. Emoji 0.6.
Treasure chestU+1FA8E. The only other emoji CLDR files under gem. Emoji 17.0.
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Gems by colour 9
🟠💎AmberBy Wiktionary: a yellow to brown fossil resin used for jewellery, and a yellow-orange colour. Orange circle, then gem stone.
🟣💎AmethystBy Wiktionary: a transparent purple to violet variety of quartz. Purple circle, then gem stone.
🟡💎CitrineBy Wiktionary: a brownish-yellow quartz. Yellow circle, then gem stone.
🟢💎EmeraldBy Wiktionary: any of various green gemstones, especially a green form of beryl. Green circle, then gem stone.
🟩💎JadeBy Wiktionary: a semiprecious stone, generally green or white. Green square, then gem stone.
⚫💎OnyxBy Wiktionary: a banded variety of chalcedony, and a jet-black colour named after it. Black circle, then gem stone.
🦪➡️⚪PearlBy Wiktionary: a rounded, lustrous growth inside certain mollusks, and a white named after it. Oyster, then right arrow, then white circle.
🔴💎RubyBy Wiktionary: corundum of a clear, deep red kind. Red circle, then gem stone.
🔵💎SapphireBy Wiktionary: a clear deep blue variety of corundum. Blue circle, then gem stone.
Gem symbols 5
◊Gem outline, tallU+25CA. Unicode names it Lozenge.
◈Gem with a facetU+25C8. Unicode names it White diamond containing black small diamond.
⟡Gem with a sparkle cutU+27E1. Unicode names it White concave-sided diamond.
✦Glint, filledU+2726. Unicode names it Black four pointed star.
✧Glint, outlineU+2727. Unicode names it White four pointed star.
Typed gems 4
(<>_<>)A face with gems for eyes. Plain ASCII
*<>*A gem with a glint each side. Plain ASCII
<<>>A gem with a facet each side. Plain ASCII
<>The smallest gem: two angle brackets. Plain ASCII
Gem drawings 2
Cut gem, drawnNine lines of ASCII
Small gem, drawnFour lines of ASCII
Gem lines 5
A gem of an idea 💎For a good one
Absolute gem of a day 💎For a day worth keeping
Found a hidden gem 💎For a place few know about
Grandma’s jewel box 💎For an heirloom
You are a gem 💎For someone precious: Wiktionary’s figurative gem
Gem combos 9
💎🪙Chest of jewelsTreasure chest, then gem stone, then coin.
🪨➡️💎From rock to gemRock, then right arrow, then gem stone.
💎🫶Gem of a friendGem stone, then heart hands.
💎👀Gem showGem stone, then eyes.
💎🔬Geology classGem stone, then microscope.
🎁💎Gift boxWrapped gift, then gem stone.
👑💎💎Jewels for a crownCrown, then gem stone, twice.
🏛️💎Museum tripClassical building, then gem stone.
🪨💎🪨Rock collectionRock, then gem stone, then rock.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 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). Gem stone is U+1F48E, Emoji 0.6, in the group Objects, subgroup clothing: Ring is printed before it and it is the last of that subgroup. CLDR gives it eight search words (diamond, engagement, gem, jewel, money, romance, stone, wedding); it is the only emoji filed under jewel, one of two under gem (with Treasure chest), one of three under stone (with Rock and Curling stone) and one of eight under diamond. No emoji name and no CLDR search word holds ruby, emerald, sapphire, amethyst, citrine, amber, onyx or jade; pearl leads to Oyster, Bubble tea and Bubbles. Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt); no character there is named jewel, and only this one is named gem. The meanings are Wiktionary’s (CC BY-SA 4.0): gem, with its Latin source gemma (a swelling bud; jewel, gem) and its figurative sense (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gem); jewel (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jewel); hidden gem (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hidden_gem); and the first stone sense, with its colour, of ruby, emerald, sapphire, amethyst, citrine, amber, onyx, jade and pearl (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ruby and the entries for the other eight words). Pairing each stone with a coloured circle or square, the four typed gems, the two drawings, the five lines and the nine 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, 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.