Waning crescent moon Emoji

Travel

A dark, shadowed moon with a thin sliver of light curving along the left side. It shows the lunar phase occurring just before the moon becomes completely invisible during the new moon stage.

Usage Context

Used to represent late-night hours, the transition from evening to bedtime, or a general sense of mystery. It is a common choice for posts about night owls, stargazing, or the lunar cycle, often appearing alongside 🌙 or 🌌.

History

Part of the early set of celestial icons in Unicode 6.0, released in 2010. These moon phases were originally digitized to bridge the gap between simple text-based weather reports and the more expressive graphical interfaces found on early mobile devices in Japan.

Details

Glyph

🌘

Unicode

U+1F318

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f318:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF18;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Travel

Subcategory sky & weather

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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