U+1F316 "🌖" Waning Gibbous Moon Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🌖
U+1F316 "🌖" Waning Gibbous Moon Symbol is a pictographic representation of the lunar phase that occurs after the full moon, when the illuminated portion of the moon is decreasing and appears as a large, bright leftward crescent in the Northern Hemisphere. This symbol is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block in Unicode, specifically within the set of moon phase emojis, and is commonly used in digital communication to denote the later stages of the lunar cycle, a sense of diminishing or declining energy, or simply the specific waxing or waning visual pattern depending on the observer's hemisphere.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F316 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Waning Gibbous 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 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F316 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf16 |