U+1F313 "🌓" First Quarter Moon Symbol Unicode Character

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.