U+1F31B "🌛" First Quarter Moon with Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🌛
U+1F31B "🌛" First Quarter Moon with Face is a pictographic symbol representing the lunar phase in which half of the moon is illuminated on the right side, combined with a stylized human face in profile showing a nose and closed eye. This emoji is part of the Moon and Face subgroup within the Unicode standard, used in digital communication to convey night, dreams, or a cryptic, sleepy mood. Often paired with its counterpart, the Last Quarter Moon with Face (U+1F31C), it enriches text with a whimsical or anthropomorphic lunar imagery, drawing from traditional folklore that personifies the moon.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F31B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | First Quarter Moon with Face |
| 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 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF1B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F31B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf1b |