What 🌜 means
A right-facing crescent moon, leaning to the left, with a yellowish golden body, an eye looking forward, a protruding nose. and a slightly upward-curved mouth, indicating a slight smile.
The 🌜 Last Quarter Crescent Moon applies human facial features to a moon, thus giving human life and emotion to the moon. It evokes a personified sense of illumination, waning and saying goodnight too.
How and when to use it
- If you're sharing a profile picture of yours (from a side angle) in a direct message (DM) or as a social media story/post, you can use 🌜 in the text message/caption to indicate goofiness and a subtle way of comparing yourself to the beauty and brightness of the moon.
- Similarly, you can respond with 🌜 when your buddies send you such pictures or even while commenting on such posts.
- Many times, the moon, more than the sun receives personification; relating human emotion to the moon, comparing humans to the moon, etc etc. So, if your post caption/quote or a text message has something like this in it, it can use 🌜. For instance, "When I cried about my stupid decisions, the moon giggled like he knew about them all along 🌜".
- You can also use 🌜 in your goodnight texts. It's even better if the moon in your locality is a waning crescent moon.
Other Names
- 🌜 Waning Crescent Moon Face
- 🌜 Waning Crescent Moon
- 🌜 Crescent Moon Face
- 🌜 Crescent Moon With a Face
- 🌜 Last Quarter Moon With a Face
- 🌜 Moon Face
- 🌜 Half Moon Face
🌜 in real conversations
What's the point of having both 🌛 and 🌜 if they mean almost the same thing?
They round out the same eight-phase logic as the plain moon emoji, just with faces added at the quarter, new and full stages specifically. 🌛 and 🌜 exist as mirror images of each other for completeness more than because anyone urgently needed two distinct sleepy-moon emoji.
Does 🌜 mean anything different depending on which way the face is looking?
Not really — unlike 🌚 and 🌝, whose expressions actually carry opposite meanings, smirk versus grin, 🌛 and 🌜 read almost identically: quiet, nighttime, a little sleepy. The mirrored direction is a design detail more than a meaningful signal.
When would someone reach for 🌜 specifically instead of a plain crescent moon?
When the face adds a little warmth to a nighttime caption that a plain 🌙 wouldn't — a cozy 'settling in for bed' post, or scenery that wants a touch of character rather than just marking the time of day. A softer, cuter choice, without meaning anything more specific than that.
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › sky & weather
- Codepoints
U+1F31C- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:last_quarter_moon_with_face:- Keywords
- dreams, face, last, moon, quarter
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🌜 Last Quarter Moon Face or 📣 Megaphone?
Runs with a crowd
🌜 keeps company in moon emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.