U+1F52E Crystal Ball
U+1F52E was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F52E behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “crystal ball” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: ball, crystal, fairy tale, fantasy, fortune, tool.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🔮︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A crystal ball, also known as an orbuculum or crystal sphere, is a crystal or glass ball and common fortune-telling object. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying in particular.
In more recent times, the crystal ball has been used for creative photography with the term lensball commonly used to describe a crystal ball used as a photography prop.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 128302 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 94 AE |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DD 2E |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F5 2E |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%94%AE |
| HTML hex reference | 🔮 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🔮 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 6.0 (2010) | |
| CRYSTAL BALL | |
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| Other Neutral | |
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| None | |
| Crystal Ball | |
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| Yes | |
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| Crystal Ball | |
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| Crystal Ball | |
| None | |
| Wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
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| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Crystal Ball | |
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