🌓First Quarter Moon Emoji
Generally, it just means “the first quarter moon. ” It’s a visual reference to that specific phase.
The 🌓 emoji represents the first quarter moon.
- Unicode
- U+1F313
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :first_quarter_moon:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌓 First Quarter Moon emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
First Quarter Moon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F313. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
First Quarter Moon emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :first_quarter_moon:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the first quarter moon, code point U+1F313.
How to type the 🌓 First Quarter Moon emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
First Quarter Moon emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the first quarter moon as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
First Quarter Moon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around first quarter 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 first quarter 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: First Quarter Moon
Code: U+1F313 · added 2010
Shortcode: :first_quarter_moon:
Generally, it just means “the first quarter moon.
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 🌓 First Quarter Moon emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F313 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🌓 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E69E, KDDI au E5AA.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
First Quarter Moon was approved as U+1F313 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
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.