Waning crescent moon emoji 🌘
Emoji 1.0 (2015) · U+1F318
What 🌘 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🌘 are crescent, moon, space, waning. They show what people use it for.
Search for crescent or moon on your emoji keyboard and 🌘 is among the results.
You will find 🌘 among the sky and weather (48 emoji), part of travel & places with 221 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🌙 🌚 🌛 🌜.
Will 🌘 show on my friend's phone?
🌘 has been around since Emoji 1.0 (2015), so it is safe to send to anyone.
How to type 🌘
Search for waning crescent moon in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🌘.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type waning crescent moon.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type waning crescent moon in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type waning crescent moon.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🌘 is one code point (U+1F318), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F318 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🌘 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🌘 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F318"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F318} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8C%98 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8C 98 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🌘 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | waning crescent moon |
| Português | lua minguante côncava |
| Español | luna menguante |
| Italiano | luna calante |
| Français | lune décroissante |
| Deutsch | letztes Mondviertel |
| Türkçe | ince ay |
| Bahasa Indonesia | bulan sabit akhir |
| Polski | zanikający półksiężyc |
| Русский | старая луна |
| 日本語 | 有明月 |
| 한국어 | 그믐달 하현 |
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What does the waning crescent moon emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🌘 "waning crescent moon" and links it with crescent, moon, space, waning. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sky and weather subgroup of travel & places.
When was the waning crescent moon emoji added?
In Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the waning crescent moon emoji?
Search for waning crescent moon in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🌘.