🌖️ Waning gibbous moon emoji

What is 🌖️ called?

🌖️ is called the Waning gibbous moon emoji.

What does 🌖️ mean?

🌖 is officially named waning gibbous moon. The waning gibbous moon phase showing more than half but decreasing illumination as the moon begins to shrink after full moon. This represents reflection, wisdom gained, sharing knowledge, and the beginning of release phases.

Use it for literal references to waning gibbous moon and for reflection, wisdom sharing, gratitude, thoughtful release, knowledge distribution. Waning means the illuminated portion is decreasing after full moon; gibbous means more than half lit. Related choices include 🌕 Full moon and 🌗 Last quarter moon.

Other meanings

It can mean reflection, wisdom sharing, gratitude, thoughtful release, knowledge distribution. Context determines whether the message is literal, astronomical, meteorological, seasonal, or symbolic.

Example Usage

Under the waning gibbous moon 🌖, we reflected on our completed journey

The sky or weather note shows waning gibbous moon 🌖

More details

Officially named waning gibbous moon. Its code point is U+1F316. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0.

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Visual description

A moon showing more than half illumination on the left side, decreasing from full moon.

Waning means the illuminated portion is decreasing after full moon; gibbous means more than half lit. Colours, proportions, orientation, and fine details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.