First quarter moon

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Shortcode: :first_quarter_moon:
Unicode: U+1F313
HTML: 🌓
CSS: \1F313
JavaScript: "\u{1F313}"
URL: %F0%9F%8C%93

What 🌓 means

A half moon with its right side lit. It means the first quarter, when the moon is halfway from new to full.

Moon-phase trackers use it, and so do people marking the halfway point of a goal or posting night-sky photos. It also sits in phase sequences between 🌒 and 🌔.

From the Southern Hemisphere, a first quarter moon is lit on the left instead.

Facts

First quarter moon 🌓 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:. People also look for it with words like “first”, “moon”, “quarter”, or “space”.