Objects · Emoji 0.6
💎Gem Stone Emoji
Generally, it means something is valuable or desirable. People use it to express excitement about a good price or to show appreciation for something nice.
The 💎 emoji is basically a tiny sparkly gem.
- Unicode
- U+1F48E
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :gem:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 💎 Gem Stone emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Gem Stone emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the gem stone as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Gem Stone emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :gem:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F48E.
04 — How to type
How to type the 💎 Gem Stone emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F48E when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Gem Stone emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Gem Stone emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around gem stone for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 💎, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 💎 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 💎 means in other countries
Beyond jewelry and luxury, it’s the literal symbol of “diamond hands” — refusing to sell an investment despite losses.
“Diamond hands” became mainstream slang during the 2021 GameStop trading frenzy.
Straightforward symbol of value, commitment, or an expensive gift.
Before you send it: In finance-adjacent chat it can read as a specific investing stance, not just “this is valuable.”
10 — Apps
What 💎 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
12 — Difference
💎 vs ♊️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Gem Stone
Code: U+1F48E · added 2010
Shortcode: :gem:
Generally, it means something is valuable or desirable.
Unicode name: Gemini
Code: U+264A U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :gemini:
Generally, the ♊️ emoji simply means "Gemini" or that someone is feeling like a Gemini.
13 — History
Where the 💎 Gem Stone emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F48E never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
💎 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E71B, KDDI au E514, SoftBank E035.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Gem Stone was approved as U+1F48E and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 💎 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ