What 🌘 means
The moon’s light is dwindling, not the moon itself. As a moon phase emoji it can label an astronomy update; after late-night thoughts, 🌘 works more like scenery than a precise emotional statement.
Don't confuse it with
3Combination ideas
2Suggestion: a moon-phase observation
Suggestion: a quiet, eerie atmosphere
Worth knowing
- The characters behind 🌘 existed in Unicode 5 years before anyone was allowed to draw them in colour: Unicode 6.0 in 2010, emoji presentation in 2015.
- 🌘 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
2Why does 🌘 look different on different phones?
Artwork varies. Colour and crater detail differ between emoji fonts; at small sizes, the sliver can be faint.
Does 🌘 mean goodnight?
Not by itself. Don’t assume the sender is going to sleep; write “goodnight” if that’s what you mean.
How to type 🌘
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “waning crescent moon”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “waning crescent moon”.
Chat apps
:waning_crescent_moon:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🌘Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🌘
HTML hex
🌘
CSS content
content: "\1F318";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8C%98
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.