🌘 Waning Crescent Moon

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Emoji Meaning

1

A dark moon with a slim crescent of golden light along its left edge — the eighth and final phase of the lunar cycle.

2

The Old Moon refers to the eighth phase of the lunar cycle, appearing just before the New Moon. The emoji shows a thin sliver of a yellow or white moon with a soft gray outline hinting at the rest of the disc.

It’s often associated with nightmares and insomnia, though it can also be used more neutrally to signify astronomy.

Apple Name

  • 🌘 Waning Crescent Moon

Unicode Name

  • 🌘 Waning Crescent Moon Symbol

🌘 Emoji Codes

Codepoints

U+1F318

Shortcodes

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For developers

URL escape code %F0%9F%8C%98
Punycode xn--4g8h
Bytes (UTF-8) F0 9F 8C 98
JavaScript, JSON, Java \uD83C\uDF18
C, C++, Python \U0001f318
CSS \01F318
PHP, Ruby \u{1F318}
Perl \x{1F318}
HTML hex 🌘
HTML dec 🌘

Tags: crescent, moon, waning

Category: Travel & Places

Subgroup: Sky & space