🌛

First Quarter Moon Face Emoji 🌛

Half the moon lit, half in shadow, with a small profile face looking off toward the dark side. It's the quiet one of the moon-face family — used mostly for nighttime scenery and sleepy, watchful moods rather than carrying any strong slang meaning of its own the way its darker siblings do.

What 🌛 means

A right crescent with a visible human eye, a nose, and a smiling mouth. This crescent moon is shown in golden yellowish color and other facial detailing such as cheeks and an eyebrow crease.

The 🌛 First Quarter Moon Face emoji is pretty much like the 🌙 Crescent Moon, just with a face. Since it suggests a sense of applying human characteristics to the moon, it can offer a much more personal way of saying goodnight or maybe even goodbye (the unbothered kind).

How and when to use it

Unlike the Molester Moon aka 🌚 New Moon Face, 🌛 can actually be used to seem cute and goofy. So, if someone calls you their moon and you don't know what to do with that kind of comparison, you can send 🌛 in response (goofy+cute+modest = character).
Since 🌛 is yellow or golden by nature (the irony), you can use this emoji in the caption for pictures that have a hell lot of yellow or gold in it - it can be a dress, couple T-shirts, a pair of sneakers, etc.
🌛 is basically the waxing crescent moon, wherein the dark side of the moon is waning off. Hence, 🌛 can be used in the frameworks of growing light, happiness, or maybe even joy. Like, "Told my boss I'd wear a new look and turned up happy 🌛" (yes, it's a borrowed joke).
Lastly, you may also use 🌛 while texting goodnight. This emoji works best if the person you're texting or the conversation you're having or both is worth that extra time to look for it.

Other Names

🌛 Crescent Moon Face
🌛 Crescent Moon With a Face
🌛 Yellow Moon Face
🌛 First Quarter Moon With Face
🌛 Right Crescent Moon Face
🌛 Crescent Moon Looking Left
🌛 Crescent-Shaped Moon Face

🌛 in real conversations

What does 🌛 mean at the end of a 'goodnight' text?

A simple bedtime sign-off, nothing deeper — the sleepy, half-lit face reads as calm and winding down rather than carrying any particular emotion. It works almost interchangeably with 🌜 here; neither has picked up strong slang the way 🌚 or 🌝 has, so 'goodnight 🌛' just means goodnight.

Is there a real difference in meaning between 🌛 and 🌜?

Barely one worth learning — both show a half-lit crescent with a small profile face, and neither has developed a distinct slang meaning of its own. Direction the face looks aside, most people just use whichever one their keyboard suggests first for a sleepy or nighttime caption.

Why doesn't 🌛 have the same smug or cheerful reputation as 🌚 or 🌝?

Because the design itself doesn't commit to an expression — it's a small, quiet profile rather than a full smirk or grin, so there's less for a caption to latch onto. It ends up doing scenery and mood work, nighttime, sleepiness, calm, instead of carrying its own personality.

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › sky & weather
Codepoints: U+1F31B
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :first_quarter_moon_with_face:
Keywords: face, first, moon, quarter, space

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.