Last quarter moon face Emoji

Travel

A crescent moon depicted with a human-like face, featuring a nose, mouth, and closed eyes looking toward the left. The moon is illuminated on its left side, showing the phase just past full as it wanes.

Usage Context

Used to represent nighttime, sleep, or the evening hours. It is frequently sent as a goodnight message or to describe a spooky or dreamlike atmosphere. It is often grouped with the 🌞 or the 🌛 to signify the passing of time from day to night.

History

This emoji has roots in early 20th-century illustration, where celestial bodies were often personified with faces. It was standardized for digital devices in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 to expand the set of weather and space-themed icons beyond simple astronomical shapes.

Details

Glyph

🌜

Unicode

U+1F31C

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f31c:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF1C;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Travel

Subcategory sky & weather

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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