U+1F312 "🌒" Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🌒
U+1F312 "🌒" Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol is a pictographic representation of the lunar phase that occurs after the new moon, depicting a thin, curved sliver of light on the right side of a dark circle. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, encoded in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0, and is commonly used in digital communication to represent the early stage of the moon's cycle, night time, or astronomical themes. Visually, the symbol shows a shadowed sphere with a bright crescent on its western edge in the Northern Hemisphere, though its orientation can vary by platform and cultural context.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F312 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🌒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🌒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F312 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf12 |