🌖Waning Gibbous Moon Emoji
Generally, 🌖 means the Waning Gibbous Moon. It's a specific lunar phase and people use it to represent that.
The 🌖 emoji represents the Waning Gibbous Moon.
- Unicode
- U+1F316
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :waning_gibbous_moon:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌖 Waning 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 waning gibbous emoji.
Waning Gibbous Moon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F316. 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.
Waning Gibbous 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 :waning_gibbous_moon:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F316.
How to type the 🌖 Waning Gibbous Moon emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F316 when there is no key at all.
Waning 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
Waning Gibbous Moon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around waning 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 waning gibbous moon and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🌖 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F316, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🌖 vs 🌝 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Waning Gibbous Moon
Code: U+1F316 · added 2015
Shortcode: :waning_gibbous_moon:
Generally, 🌖 means the Waning 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 🌖 Waning Gibbous Moon emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the waning gibbous moon has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F316 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.
Waning Gibbous Moon was approved as U+1F316 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.