→ 25D1 ◑ circle with right half black
The last quarter moon emoji is the chill, waning half of the lunar cycle—aka the “we’re past the peak, winding down now” vibe. It literally shows the moon halfway lit with the left side bright and the right side in shadow, a perfect fit for late-night texts, moody captions, and “low battery but still going” energy. People drop it with sleepy updates, cosmic aesthetics, and witchy posts about release and reflection, or as a subtle way to say, “we’re in our decompress era.” It’s also used ironically to roast your own productivity: half illuminated, half mystery, fully procrastinating.
On Apple/iOS, this emoji appears as a realistic, crater-speckled gray disk with a crisp vertical split—left hemisphere a pale silvery white, right hemisphere a deep slate gray. No face here, just space: a clean, straight-on view with soft shading and those little pitted moon craters you instantly recognize from lock-screen wallpapers and science class posters. It reads sleek and slightly dramatic, like the moon’s doing a minimalist photoshoot for a lo-fi beats playlist cover.
Online, it pairs well with “u up?” energy at 2 a.m., night-owl flexes, or posts about tides, astrology, and full-moon hangovers (“werewolves on cooldown”). In meme culture, it can stand in for halftime, the Sunday Scaries, or the moment your ambition starts waning mid-week. Expect it in captions about letting go, setting boundaries, or when you’re feeling contemplative, nocturnal, and kinda cinematic. Bonus points if you drop it with starry emojis and a cryptic quote that absolutely belongs over a vaporwave skyline.
The seventh phase (last quarter) of the moon occurs when left half of the moon reflects the light of the sun (is light) and the right half of the moon is dark.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 970 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture |  |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :last_quarter_moon: |
| Keywords | Moon, Last, Quarter, Sky, Night, Cheese, Phase |
| Previous Names: | Last Quarter Moon Symbol |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Moon, Sun, and Star Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🌗 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🌗 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🌗 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🌗 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f317 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F317 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127767 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x97 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8C 97 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 214 227 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF17 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf17 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57111 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F317 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F317 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127767 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F317" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8c\x97" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF17" |
