Travel & Places · Emoji 1.0
🌘Waning Crescent Moon Emoji
Generally, 🌘 means a waning crescent moon. It’s just an image, so people use it to express whatever they're feeling in that moment—often something a little melancholic or thoughtful.
The 🌘 emoji represents a waning crescent moon.
- Unicode
- U+1F318
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :waning_
crescent_ moon: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🌘 Waning Crescent Moon emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
People also look for it as waning crescent emoji.
02 — Platforms
Waning Crescent Moon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F318 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your waning crescent moon looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Waning 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 :waning_crescent_moon:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F318.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🌘 Waning Crescent Moon emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Waning 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Waning Crescent Moon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around waning crescent moon for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🌘 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🌘 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F318, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
🌘 vs 🌝 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Waning Crescent Moon
Code: U+1F318 · added 2015
Shortcode: :waning_crescent_moon:
Generally, 🌘 means a waning crescent 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.
11 — History
Where the 🌘 Waning Crescent Moon emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the waning crescent moon has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F318 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 Crescent Moon was approved as U+1F318 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.
12 — FAQ