Waxing Crescent Moon Emoji

What does the Waxing Crescent Moon emoji mean?

Represented by the character 🌒, the Waxing Crescent Moon emoji is classified under Travel & Places. It captures the idea of waxing crescent moon in a single, cross-platform glyph that readers understand at a glance. Unicode maps this character to U+1F312 and it first shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). The code point ensures the same underlying meaning even though visual art varies by vendor. Place icons are also practical: they work well in lists, itineraries, event invites, and bios where space is tight but location context is essential. On Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and other vendors the artwork differs slightly — colour palette, shading, and line weight change — but the core concept of waxing 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 (:waxing-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 waxing crescent moon — it conveys that idea faster than words while keeping the message friendly and scannable.

How to use the Waxing Crescent Moon emoji

• In chat: Drop 🌒 into a sentence where you would normally write “waxing 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 :waxing-crescent-moon: when the raw character may be escaped or unsupported.

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