Star and crescent
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- Shortcode
:star_and_crescent:- Unicode
U+262A- HTML
☪- CSS
\262A- JavaScript
"\u{262A}"- URL
%E2%98%AA%EF%B8%8F
What ☪️ means
A crescent moon with a star. It is a common symbol of Islam and Muslim identity.
Used for Ramadan and Eid greetings, mosque events and faith posts, often with 🌙. It also echoes the flags of countries such as Turkey and Pakistan.
Facts
Star and crescent ☪️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under religion. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :star_and_crescent:. People also look for it with words like “Muslim”, “crescent”, “islam”, or “ramadan”.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.