Crescent moon (first quarter)

Meaning and uses

A crescent moon shaped like a reversed C, the waxing moon. It is the mirror image of ☾, and the two are often used together around a word: ☽ name ☾.

Unicode details

☽ is the Unicode character named FIRST QUARTER MOON, code point U+263D, in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ☽

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 263D and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ☽.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “first quarter moon”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 263d, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ☽. In a CSS content property, use "\263D".