🌗Last Quarter Moon Emoji
Generally, 🌗 means "the last quarter moon. " It’s often used to express a feeling of transition or a sense of things being balanced.
The 🌗 emoji represents the last quarter moon.
- Unicode
- U+1F317
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :last_quarter_moon:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌗 Last Quarter Moon emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Last Quarter Moon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the last quarter 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.
Last Quarter Moon emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :last_quarter_moon:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the last quarter moon, code point U+1F317.
How to type the 🌗 Last Quarter Moon emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Last Quarter Moon emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the last 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
Last Quarter Moon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around last 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
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🌗 vs 🌝 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Last Quarter Moon
Code: U+1F317 · added 2015
Shortcode: :last_quarter_moon:
Generally, 🌗 means "the last 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 🌗 Last Quarter Moon emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the last quarter moon to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F317 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.
Last Quarter Moon was approved as U+1F317 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.