Waxing crescent moon emoji 🌒
Emoji 1.0 (2015) · U+1F312
What 🌒 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🌒 are crescent, dreams, moon, space, waxing. They show what people use it for.
Search for crescent or dreams 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 waxing 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 waxing crescent moon.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type waxing crescent moon in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type waxing crescent moon.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🌒 is one code point (U+1F312), 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+1F312 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🌒 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🌒 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F312"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F312} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8C%92 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8C 92 |
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 | waxing crescent moon |
| Português | lua crescente côncava |
| Español | luna creciente |
| Italiano | luna crescente |
| Français | lune croissante |
| Deutsch | erstes Mondviertel |
| Türkçe | büyüyen ay |
| Bahasa Indonesia | bulan sabit awal |
| Polski | narastający półksiężyc |
| Русский | молодая луна |
| 日本語 | 初月 |
| 한국어 | 초승달 상현 |
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What does the waxing crescent moon emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🌒 "waxing crescent moon" and links it with crescent, dreams, moon, space. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sky and weather subgroup of travel & places.
When was the waxing crescent moon emoji added?
In Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the waxing crescent moon emoji?
Search for waxing crescent moon in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🌒.