First Quarter Moon

U+263D
☽

The ☽ first quarter moon sits in the useful middle ground between plain punctuation and emoji, especially for night styling, soft bios, celestial themes.

This symbol works well in short-form copy whenever night styling, soft bios, celestial themes should stay visible without taking on full emoji weight.

Unicode symbolsmoonnightsoftcelestialdecorative

How people use this symbol

The first quarter moon is commonly copied for profiles, captions, UI labels, notes, and short-form text where people want more control than emoji styling usually gives them.

It fits especially well in plain text layouts because the character is lightweight, easy to paste, and usually easier to align with surrounding words than a colorful emoji glyph.

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Symbol details

Unicode
U+263D
HTML
☽
ASCII
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