What ๐ means
A half moon with a face in profile. It means night, sleep and bedtime stories.
A soft, playful good night often comes with it, alongside ๐ค or โญ. It suits children's content, lullabies and sweet-dreams messages. Some pair it with ๐ for a matching set of moons.
Facts
First quarter moon face ๐ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under sky weather. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :first_quarter_moon_with_face: or :first_quarter_moon_face:. People also look for it with words like โfaceโ, โfirstโ, โmoonโ, or โquarterโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
travel & places ยท Unicode 6.0