Waning Gibbous Moon Emoji
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What does the Waning Gibbous Moon emoji mean?
1
A nearly full moon, almost entirely illuminated, with just a thin sliver of darkness remaining on the right. This is the sixth of the moon’s eight phases.
2
The waning Moon marks the sixth phase of the lunar cycle. It follows the full moon, as the illuminated portion of the Moon begins to shrink. It’s often shown in soft yellow or white, with its familiar craters and a round outline, plus a small shadowed segment.
It evokes moonlight, night, dreams, and the mysteries of darkness.
Apple Name
- 🌖 Waning Gibbous Moon
Unicode Name
- 🌖 Waning Gibbous Moon Symbol
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Waning Gibbous Moon emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🌖 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F316
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%8C%96 |
| Punycode | xn--2g8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 8C 96 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDF16 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f316 |
| CSS | \01F316 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F316} |
| Perl | \x{1F316} |
| HTML hex | 🌖 |
| HTML dec | 🌖 |