🌔Waxing Gibbous Moon Emoji
Generally, 🌔 means "waxing gibbous moon. " It’s a visual emoji, so people often use it to represent the idea of something growing or developing.
The 🌔 emoji represents the waxing gibbous moon.
- Unicode
- U+1F314
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :moon:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌔 Waxing Gibbous Moon emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
People also look for it as waxing gibbous emoji.
Waxing Gibbous Moon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the waxing gibbous moon as 9 vendors ship it.
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 Gibbous Moon emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :moon:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F314.
How to type the 🌔 Waxing Gibbous Moon emoji
No picker to hand? The waxing gibbous moon can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Waxing Gibbous 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 Gibbous Moon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around waxing gibbous 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
Who sent the waxing gibbous moon and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🌔 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the waxing gibbous 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 Gibbous Moon
Code: U+1F314 · added 2010
Shortcode: :moon:
Generally, 🌔 means "waxing gibbous 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 🌔 Waxing Gibbous 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+1F314 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 E69D, KDDI au E5A9.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Waxing Gibbous Moon was approved as U+1F314 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.