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🌙 Crescent moon

Category: Travel & Places
Subcategory: Sky & Weather
Shortcode
Unicode version: 6.0 (2010)
Emoji version: 0.6 (2010)
Status: fully-qualified

What the 🌙 emoji means

A thin crescent. Night and sleep in everyday use; in Muslim countries it also marks Ramadan and Eid.

Good night wishes are its main job. In a religious greeting the reading shifts entirely, and that is worth noticing before replying with a joke.

Chat examples

Will your readers see 🌙

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

Apple always there
Google always there
Microsoft always there
Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the 🌙 emoji is used

The 🌙 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how crescent moon is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

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🌙 Your deviceNative system font
Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 💾 SVG
OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 💾 SVG
Twemoji CC BY 4.0 💾 SVG

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English	crescent moon
Русский	полумесяц
Deutsch	Mondsichel
Español	luna
Français	croissant de lune
Polski	półksiężyc
Dansk	halvmåne
Українська	серп місяця
Português	lua crescente

Unicode CLDR 48

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