U+263E "☾" Last Quarter Moon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☾
U+263E "☾" Last Quarter Moon is a typographic symbol representing the lunar phase that occurs when the moon is half illuminated on its left side in the northern hemisphere, appearing as a crescent shape facing left. This character is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block and can be used in digital text to denote nighttime, celestial themes, or specific phases of the moon in contexts such as astronomy, calendars, or mystical symbolism. Its design and meaning are complementary to the similar First Quarter Moon symbol, together forming a visual shorthand for the moon’s cyclical journey through its phases.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+263E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Last Quarter Moon |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ☾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ☾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x98 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x263E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000263E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u263e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |