🌕️ Full moon emoji

What is 🌕️ called?

🌕️ is called the Full moon emoji.

What does 🌕️ mean?

🌕 is officially named full moon. The full moon phase when the moon appears completely illuminated from Earth's perspective, representing completion, fulfillment, peak energy, and the culmination of lunar cycles. This represents achievement, maximum potential, and full manifestation.

Use it for literal references to full moon and for completion, fulfillment, peak energy, achievement, maximum potential. The near side appears fully illuminated from Earth, though the Moon remains a sphere rather than a flat disk. Related choices include 🌔 Waxing gibbous moon and 🌖 Waning gibbous moon.

Other meanings

It can mean completion, fulfillment, peak energy, achievement, maximum potential. Context determines whether the message is literal, astronomical, meteorological, seasonal, or symbolic.

Example Usage

The full moon 🌕 illuminated the entire valley with silvery light

The sky or weather note shows full moon 🌕

More details

Officially named full moon. Its code point is U+1F315. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0.

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Visual description

A completely illuminated circular moon showing full brightness and detail.

The near side appears fully illuminated from Earth, though the Moon remains a sphere rather than a flat disk. Colours, proportions, orientation, and fine details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.