🌒 Waxing Crescent Moon
The 🌒 Waxing Crescent Moon emoji (U+1F312) is part of the Nature category, where it sits in the Sky group alongside 17 related emojis. It is tagged with the keywords moon, waxing, and crescent, which captures how people actually use it: when someone wants to express moon in a message, caption, or comment, 🌒 is one of the glyphs they reach for, and it also carries connotations of waxing, and crescent. Like every emoji, the Waxing Crescent Moon renders slightly differently on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft devices because each platform draws its own artwork, but the underlying Unicode code point U+1F312 is identical everywhere, so the meaning travels even when the pixels change. On this page you can copy the 🌒 emoji with one click and paste it into any app that accepts Unicode text — chats, social posts, emails, and documents. Emojis most closely related to 🌒 in the Sky group include 🌕 Full Moon, 🌖 Waning Gibbous Moon, 🌗 Last Quarter Moon, 🌘 Waning Crescent Moon, 🌑 New Moon, 🌓 First Quarter Moon, and it is frequently combined with 🌕 Full Moon and 🌖 Waning Gibbous Moon in messages. The Nature category contains 28 emojis in total on Emoji Reference.