Category: Travel & Places

🌓first quarter moon

🌓 first quarter moon belongs to Travel & Places. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.

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Meaning

Depicts the first quarter moon phase, half-illuminated on the right side.

Aliases

:first_quarter_moon:

Keywords

firstmoonquarterspacefirst quarter moon

What does 🌓 first quarter moon mean?

The 🌓 emoji represents the first quarter moon, a lunar phase where the right half of the moon is visible from Earth. In addition to literal uses for astronomy and nighttime, it can metaphorically represent progress and growth, or symbolize balance and duality.

Often used for

Discussing lunar phases or astronomy
Symbolizing progress or being halfway through a project
Representing balance, transition, or duality
Indicating nighttime or evening plans
Tracking moon cycles for calendars or gardening

Tone: While often used in a neutral and literal way, this emoji also carries established metaphorical meanings of progress, growth, and balance.

🌓 in real messages

the sky was so clear tonight, saw the first quarter moon 🌓
checking the lunar calendar for this week 🌓
going out to set up the telescope 🌓
night shift starts now 🌓
looks like a good night for stargazing 🌓

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How 🌓 first quarter moon looks

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🌓 first quarter moon codes for developers

Every format below produces 🌓 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.

Emoji	`🌓`
Unicode codepoints	`U+1F313`
HTML (decimal)	`🌓`
HTML (hex)	`🌓`
CSS	`\1F313`
JavaScript	`\u{1F313}`
JSON	`\uD83C\uDF13`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%8C%93`
Shortcode (GitHub)	`:first_quarter_moon:`