U+1F319 Crescent Moon
U+1F319 was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (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. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+1F319 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “crescent moon” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: crescent, moon.
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 crescent shape (, UK also ) is a symbol or emblem used to represent the lunar phase in the first quarter (the "sickle moon"), or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself.
In Hinduism, Lord Shiva is often shown wearing a crescent moon on his head symbolising that the lord is the master of time and is himself timeless.
It is used as the astrological symbol for the Moon, and hence as the alchemical symbol for silver. It was also the emblem of Diana/Artemis, and hence represented virginity. In Christianity Marian veneration, it is associated with the Virgin Mary.
From its use as roof finial in Ottoman era mosques, it has also become associated with Islam, and the crescent was introduced as chaplain badge for Muslim chaplains in the US military in 1993.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 127769 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 8C 99 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3C DF 19 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F3 19 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%8C%99 |
| HTML hex reference | 🌙 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🌙 |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 6.0 (2010) | |
| CRESCENT MOON | |
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| Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Crescent Moon | |
| ✘ | |
| Crescent Moon | |
| Crescent Moon | |
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| Crescent Moon | |
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| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
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| Crescent Moon | |
| Any | |
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| ✘ | |
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| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Crescent Moon | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Crescent Moon | |
| None | |
| Wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Crescent Moon | |
| U |