Crescent moon (last quarter)

Meaning and uses

A crescent moon shaped like the letter C, the waning moon. It is one of the most used moon symbols in aesthetic and witchy text, as in ☾ goodnight, and it stays plain text.

Unicode details

☾ is the Unicode character named LAST QUARTER MOON, code point U+263E, 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 263E 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 “last quarter moon”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 263e, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ☾. In a CSS content property, use "\263E".