U+1F48E "💎" Gem Stone Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
💎
U+1F48E "💎" Gem Stone is a pictographic symbol representing a faceted, brilliant-cut precious gem, typically depicted in a vibrant blue or cyan hue to evoke a sapphire or diamond. Commonly referred to simply as the gem emoji, it is used in digital communication to convey concepts of luxury, rarity, value, and beauty, often appearing in contexts related to jewelry, wealth, special achievements, or as a metaphor for something precious or treasured. As part of the Unicode standard since version 6.0 in 2010, this character belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and serves as a visually striking shorthand in texting, social media, and other electronic messaging platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F48E |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Gem Stone |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 💎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 💎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F48E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc8e |