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Last Quarter Moon Emoji 🌗

What 🌗 means

A partially visible moon with just the left side being illuminated by the sun and the right side staying on the dark side or darkening in a sense.

The 🌗 Last Quarter Moon emoji signifies light and dark, and all the other metaphorical interpretations attached to it. Since the moon is now just another phase from newness or from being completely dark, it may also suggest a sense of being halfway towards invisibility or darkness.

How and when to use it

When there's half a moon visible from your part of the earth, the other half can have more than just one interpretation. It could signify mystery, a shadow, and the 'dark side' to things. For instance, "Like the moon, half of him is always a mystery 🌗" (and boom! you can use 🌗).
Keeping the 'shadow' perspective in mind, you can also use 🌗 while posting or reposting anything pertaining to the Shadow psychology, if you're Jungian, of course.
Much like life has a bright or lit side, there's always a dark side to everything. And this very concept makes things imperfectly perfect. Thus, forming a great idea for a kickass post caption. For example, "If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels too 🌗".
You can also use 🌗 while referring to anything that has 'equal amounts' of two different things; it can be light and dark, good and bad, sanity and insanity, etc.

Other Names

🌗 Half Moon
🌗 Waning Half Moon
🌗 Seventh Lunar Phase
🌗 Seventh Phase of the Moon
🌗 Third Quarter Moon
🌗 Moon With 50% Visibility

🌗 in real conversations

Is 🌗 the same as saying 'half moon'?

Visually, sure — exactly half the disc is lit, on the left side this time. But 'last quarter' is the precise term, referring to timing rather than shape: it lands about three weeks after new moon, roughly a week before the cycle resets. 'Half moon' just isn't specific enough to say which half of the cycle you mean.

What time does 🌗 actually show up in the sky?

Around midnight, and it stays visible through the morning — rising in the middle of the night, sitting high overhead around dawn, then setting around noon. That makes it a morning object more than an evening one, the mirror opposite of the first quarter moon's afternoon visibility.

What comes right after 🌗 in the cycle?

🌘, the waning crescent — the thin, shrinking sliver that leads straight into the next new moon. From 🌗 onward, every night the lit portion gets a little thinner until there's nothing left and the whole eight-phase sequence starts over again at 🌑.

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › sky & weather
Codepoints: U+1F317
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :last_quarter_moon:
Keywords: last, 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.