Try Crescent Moon emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Crescent Moon emoji mean?
Night, rest and quiet hours.
Quiet night-time energy. It fits sleep, evening routines and reflective moods, and may also carry cultural or religious significance.
How to use 🌙 naturally
Good-night messages and late-night posts.
Nature emoji describe weather and places while also carrying emotional associations such as calm, hope, luck or change. They are common in captions because they establish a mood without a long explanation.
From standard to slang
The history of 🌙
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Crescent Moon was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A thin waxing crescent. Unlike 🌛 it has no face, which keeps it usable for night, for Islam and for sleep without any of them clashing.
- Today
How its use evolved
Good-night messages and late-night posts.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🌙 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Good night 🌙
Late-night reading session 🌙
The city is finally quiet 🌙
When to use it
Using 🌙 clearly
Good-night messages and late-night posts. It lands as night or sleep when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the crescent moon emoji
What does 🌙 mean in a text message?
Night, rest and quiet hours. Quiet night-time energy. It fits sleep, evening routines and reflective moods, and may also carry cultural or religious significance.
Is 🌙 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are night, sleep, moon, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🌙 look different on another device?
U+1F319 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the crescent moon emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🌙 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the crescent moon emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🌙 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🌙 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F319 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🌙 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🌙 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F319 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F319} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8C%99 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F319
- Category
- Weather & Nature
- Also known as
- nightsleepmoon
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