U+1F313 "🌓" First Quarter Moon Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🌓
U+1F313 "🌓" First Quarter Moon Symbol is a graphical representation of a half illuminated moon, specifically the phase when the moon appears as a semicircle with the right half lit and the left half dark, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. This character is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block in the Unicode standard, encoded in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. It is widely used in digital communication, astronomy, and calendar applications to denote the first quarter phase of the lunar cycle, which occurs about one week after a new moon and indicates that the moon is halfway through its waxing phase toward a full moon.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F313 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | First Quarter 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 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF13 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F313 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf13 |