Category: Travel & Places

🌘waning crescent moon

🌘 waning crescent moon belongs to Travel & Places. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.

Meaning

Depicts a waning crescent moon, the final lunar phase before a new moon.

Aliases

:waning_crescent_moon:

Keywords

crescentmoonspacewaningwaning crescent moon

What does 🌘 waning crescent moon mean?

The 🌘 emoji shows a crescent moon with the illuminated portion on the left, representing the waning crescent phase in the lunar cycle. It is often used in contexts related to nighttime, space, astronomy, or the passage of time. Depending on context, it can also simply convey a moody or atmospheric nighttime vibe.

Often used for

  • Discussing moon phases or astronomy
  • Talking about nighttime or stargazing
  • Setting a calm or moody evening mood
  • Referencing space or celestial themes
  • Marking the end of a lunar cycle
Tone: Generally neutral and atmospheric; rarely used figuratively, so it tends to read literally as a moon or night reference.

Illustrative message examples with 🌘

These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.

  • clear skies tonight, perfect for the 🌘
  • last phase before the new moon 🌘
  • up way too late again 🌘
  • the crescent is getting so thin 🌘
  • night walk later? 🌘
  • almost a new moon this weekend 🌘

Combos, text art & scenes with 🌘

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How 🌘 waning crescent moon looks

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🌘 waning crescent moon codes for developers

Every format below produces 🌘 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.

Emoji🌘
Unicode codepointsU+1F318
HTML (decimal)🌘
HTML (hex)🌘
CSS\1F318
JavaScript\u{1F318}
JSON\uD83C\uDF18
URL encoded%F0%9F%8C%98
Shortcode (GitHub):waning_crescent_moon:

🌘 in other languages

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