Waxing gibbous moon

A moon more than half lit and still growing toward full. It means the waxing gibbous phase, a few days before the full moon.

Mostly used for moon-phase tracking, astrology and night-sky photos. It can also mean 'almost there': something that is nearly complete but not quite done, with the big moment just ahead.

Facts

Waxing gibbous 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 :moon: or :waxing_gibbous_moon:. People also look for it with words like “gibbous”, “moon”, “space”, or “waxing”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

travel & places · Unicode 6.0