waning crescent moon Emoji

The waning crescent moon emoji represents a place, building, mode of transportation, or geographic feature, commonly used in travel planning conversations, location-tagged social posts, or figuratively to signal a trip, vacation, or "getting away" theme.

Category context: The Travel & Places category includes buildings, geographic features, transportation, and sky/weather symbols — frequently used both literally (trip planning, location-sharing) and as visual shorthand for travel-related content and social posts.

Cataloged under Sky Weather within the Travel & Places category, waning crescent moon is the 82nd of 219 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 1 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F318.

💡 Good to know: Building and landmark emoji are generic representations rather than depictions of specific real buildings — for referencing an actual famous landmark, pair the emoji with its name in text.