Waning Crescent Moon Emoji

What does the Waning Crescent Moon emoji mean?

Waning Crescent Moon — shown as 🌘 — is part of the Travel & Places group. This emoji is designed to convey its concept instantly in messages, captions, social posts, and documents without needing extra explanation. Technically it is encoded at Unicode code point U+1F318 and was added in Emoji 1.0 (2015), so every up-to-date system can display and exchange it reliably. Whether marking a destination, a mode of transport, or a landmark, this emoji helps readers map the story — it signals where something happens, how someone got there, or what kind of environment is being described. On Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and other vendors the artwork differs slightly — colour palette, shading, and line weight change — but the core concept of waning crescent moon stays identical, so the emoji remains universally readable. You can copy this emoji as the character itself (🌘), as an HTML entity (🌘), or as a shortcode (:waning-crescent-moon:) for platforms like Slack, Discord, and GitHub.

This detailed meaning was written by the UseEmoji editorial team after reviewing Unicode CLDR data and real-world usage. For quick identification, think of this emoji as shorthand for waning crescent moon — it conveys that idea faster than words while keeping the message friendly and scannable.

How to use the Waning Crescent Moon emoji

• In chat: Drop 🌘 into a sentence where you would normally write “waning crescent moon” to add tone and visual interest.
• On social media: Pair 🌘 with a keyword or hashtag to make captions more searchable and expressive.
• In documents and code: Use the HTML entity 🌘 or shortcode :waning-crescent-moon: when the raw character may be escaped or unsupported.

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