U+1F318 Waning Crescent Moon Symbol
U+1F318 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F318 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “waning crescent moon” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: crescent, moon, space, waning.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🌘︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, the same hemisphere is always facing the Earth). In common usage, the four major phases are the new moon, the first quarter, the full moon and the last quarter; the four minor phases are waxing crescent, waxing gibbous, waning gibbous, and waning crescent. A lunar month is the time between successive recurrences of the same phase: due to the eccentricity of the Moon's orbit, this duration is not perfectly constant but averages about 29.5 days.
The appearance of the Moon (its phase) gradually changes over a lunar month as the relative orbital positions of the Moon around Earth, and Earth around the Sun, shift. The visible side of the Moon is sunlit to varying extents, depending on the position of the Moon in its orbit, with the sunlit portion varying from 0% (at new moon) to nearly 100% (at full moon).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 127768 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 8C 98 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3C DF 18 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F3 18 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%8C%98 |
| HTML hex reference | 🌘 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🌘 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 94 39 B2 32 |
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Complete Record
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| 6.0 (2010) | |
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