Waning Crescent Moon Emoji
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What does the Waning Crescent Moon emoji mean?
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
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Waning Crescent Moon emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🌘 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F318
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
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 | 🌘 |