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🌔Waxing Gibbous Moon Emoji
Unicode added 🌔 waxing gibbous moon in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Travel & Places → Weather. Its codepoint is U+1F314, and it is tagged gibbous, moon and space.
What 🌔 waxing gibbous moon means
Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.
Unicode tags this one gibbous, moon and space and files it under Travel & Places → Weather.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F314 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🌔 | |
| HTML decimal | 🌔 | |
| CSS | \1F314 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F314} | |
| Python | \U0001F314 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF14 | |
| Rust | \u{1f314} | |
| Swift | \u{1F314} | |
| PHP | \u{1F314} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8C%94 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8C 94 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF14 | |
| Base64 | 8J+MlA== | |
| Decimal | 127764 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🌔
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “waxing gibbous moon”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “gibbous”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f314and Enter. - HTML — paste
🌔.
How 🌔 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🌔Apple
- 🌔Segoe
- 🌔Noto
- 🌔System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🌔 waxing gibbous moon emoji mean?+
🌔 is the waxing gibbous moon emoji, tagged gibbous, moon and space. Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.
What is the Unicode code for 🌔?+
waxing gibbous moon is U+1F314. In HTML that is 🌔, in CSS \1F314, and in JavaScript \u{1F314}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🌔 emoji added?+
waxing gibbous moon got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Weather in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
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