🌛First Quarter Moon Face Emoji
Generally, 🌛 means you’re feeling sleepy, peaceful, or like you’re dreaming. It’s often used to describe nighttime or a calm, quiet atmosphere.
The 🌛 emoji shows a crescent moon with a face.
- Unicode
- U+1F31B
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :first_quarter_moon_with_face:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌛 First Quarter Moon Face emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as first emoji.
First Quarter Moon Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the first quarter moon face 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.
First Quarter Moon Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :first_quarter_moon_with_face:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the first quarter moon face, code point U+1F31B.
How to type the 🌛 First Quarter Moon Face emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F31B when there is no key at all.
First Quarter Moon Face 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
First Quarter Moon Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around first quarter moon face 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
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: First Quarter Moon Face
Code: U+1F31B · added 2010
Shortcode: :first_quarter_moon_with_face:
Generally, 🌛 means you’re feeling sleepy, peaceful, or like you’re dreaming.
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 🌛 First Quarter Moon Face 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+1F31B 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 E69E, KDDI au E489.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
First Quarter Moon Face was approved as U+1F31B 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.