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Abstract: In this article, we survey and statistics with more than 2500 words expressing gemstones in Vietnamese from language sources in books, newspapers, and websites. The article uses descriptive methods, semantic component analysis methods, comparative methods, and taxonomic statistics. As can be seen, there has been no research on gemstones nomination. Hence, we researched gemstones nomination in Vietnamese. As a result, there are judgments about the characteristics of linguistic and cultural thinking of Vietnamese people through the gemstones nomination. The survey results show that gemstones names have single-criteria nomination categories and multiple-criteria nomination categories. There are four single-criteria gemstones nomination categories, 14 gemstones two-criterion nomination categories, and 7 gemstones three-criteria nomination categories selected for this research