🌘 Waning Crescent Moon Symbol
Description
A waning crescent moon (appearing to become smaller), the last of the phases of the moon. Depicts the moon as a cratered disc, its left side illuminated in a thin, golden or silver crescent, its remainder dark. May be used to represent the moon more generally, nighttime, outer space, and astronomy. May also be used to convey enchanting or eerie feelings. In July 2023 this emoji trended on Emojipedia. This is likely due to it being required to complete developer Neal Agarwal’s viral hit The Password Game. See also 🌙 Crescent Moon. Not to be confused with 🌒 Waxing Crescent Moon, though their applications may overlap. Used as part of the Moon Emoji Creep meme. Samsung’s design once resembled a full moon with stars and previously displayed as a waning crescent moon in a night sky with stars.
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| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :waning_crescent_moon: | |
| GitHub | :waning_crescent_moon: | |
| Slack | :waning_crescent_moon: | |
| Discord | :waning_crescent_moon: |
Additional Information
Waning Crescent Moon was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Waning Crescent Moon Symbol” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015 http://emojipedia.org/waning-crescent-moon-symbol/
- (of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases
- Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- Having an absolute or relative lack of light.
- Night or nighttime is the period of time between the sunset and the sunrise when the Sun is below the horizon.
- The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- Hours of darkness.
- The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
- Night is the period of time when the sun is below the horizon.
- Part of the day when the Sun is not aloft
- The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.
- Any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
- Crescent is a solitaire card game played with two decks of playing cards mixed together.
- A card game
- Any one of the aspects or appearances presented by the moon as seen from Earth.
- The waxing lunar phase, from new moon to half way between new moon and full moon.