Which emoji is a crescent moon?

The crescent moon emoji is called Crescent Moon. It is commonly displayed as a thin, illuminated crescent against a dark sky, symbolizing the Moon in one of its partial phases.

In Unicode, Crescent Moon is encoded as U+1F319. It was included among the emoji characters standardized with Unicode 6.0, released in October 2010. The character originated in the pictographic sets used by Japanese mobile-phone carriers before becoming part of Unicode’s interoperable emoji system.

The emoji is often used for nighttime, sleep, astronomy, Ramadan, or a dreamy atmosphere. Its exact visual appearance can vary by platform: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other vendors may draw the crescent with different orientations, shading, or facial details.

It is easy to confuse Crescent Moon with New Moon, Full Moon, or Last Quarter Moon. Those are separate Unicode characters representing different lunar appearances. Crescent Moon is also distinct from First Quarter Moon, which depicts roughly half of the Moon illuminated rather than a narrow curved sliver.