🌘️ Waning crescent moon emoji

What is 🌘️ called?

🌘️ is called the Waning crescent moon emoji.

What does 🌘️ mean?

🌘 is officially named waning crescent moon. The waning crescent moon phase showing a thin sliver of illuminated moon as it continues shrinking toward new moon. This represents final release, rest, introspection, and preparation for new cycles to begin.

Use it for literal references to waning crescent moon and for final release, rest, introspection, peaceful transition, wisdom of endings. The illuminated portion is decreasing toward new moon; hemisphere affects its apparent orientation. Related choices include 🌗 Last quarter moon and 🌙 Crescent moon.

Other meanings

It can mean final release, rest, introspection, peaceful transition, wisdom of endings. Context determines whether the message is literal, astronomical, meteorological, seasonal, or symbolic.

Example Usage

The waning crescent moon 🌘 appeared faintly in the pre-dawn sky

The sky or weather note shows waning crescent moon 🌘

More details

Officially named waning crescent moon. Its code point is U+1F318. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0.

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Visual description

A crescent-shaped moon with a thin sliver of illumination on the left side.

The illuminated portion is decreasing toward new moon; hemisphere affects its apparent orientation. Colours, proportions, orientation, and fine details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.