🌒Waxing Crescent Moon Emoji
Generally, 🌒 means “good luck” or “I’m thinking of you. ” It’s a small way to send a positive vibe.
The 🌒 emoji represents the waxing crescent moon.
- Unicode
- U+1F312
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :waxing_crescent_moon:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌒 Waxing Crescent Moon emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
People also look for it as waxing crescent emoji.
Waxing Crescent Moon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the waxing crescent moon has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Waxing Crescent Moon emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :waxing_crescent_moon:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the waxing crescent moon, code point U+1F312.
How to type the 🌒 Waxing Crescent Moon emoji
No picker to hand? The waxing crescent moon can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Waxing Crescent Moon emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Waxing Crescent Moon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around waxing crescent moon for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🌒, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🌒 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🌒 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the waxing crescent moon lands changes how it is taken.
🌒 vs 🌝 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Waxing Crescent Moon
Code: U+1F312 · added 2015
Shortcode: :waxing_crescent_moon:
Generally, 🌒 means “good luck” or “I’m thinking of you.
Unicode name: Full Moon Face
Code: U+1F31D · added 2015
Shortcode: :full_moon_with_face:
Generally, it just means the person is referencing the full moon.
Where the 🌒 Waxing Crescent Moon emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the waxing crescent moon to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F312 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Waxing Crescent Moon was approved as U+1F312 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🌒 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.