Crescent moon emoji meaning

The crescent moon emoji shows a curved shape that looks like a thin crescent moon. It is often used to represent nighttime, relaxation, sleep, or the idea of calmness and dreams. People include it in messages about the evening or peaceful moments. This emoji also carries cultural meanings, as the crescent moon is often linked to ideas like tranquility, new beginnings, and the changing phases of the moon.

The crescent moon emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026