Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
🌙Crescent Moon Emoji
Generally, it just means the moon! People use it to add a little visual element to their messages and express a feeling of calmness or nighttime.
The crescent moon emoji (🌙) represents the moon itself, obviously!
- Unicode
- U+1F319
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :crescent_
moon: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🌙 Crescent Moon emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Crescent Moon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the crescent moon as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Crescent Moon emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :crescent_moon:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the crescent moon, code point U+1F319.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🌙 Crescent Moon emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F319 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Crescent Moon emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the crescent moon as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Crescent Moon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around 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
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
🌙 vs 🌝 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Crescent Moon
Code: U+1F319 · added 2010
Shortcode: :crescent_moon:
Generally, it just means the 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 🌙 Crescent 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+1F319 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 E69F, KDDI au E486, SoftBank E04C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Crescent Moon was approved as U+1F319 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.
12 — FAQ