Waning Gibbous Emoji 🌖
Unicode U+1F316 · added in Unicode 6.0 (2010) · sixth of the 8 moon phases
What the waning gibbous emoji means
🌖 is the waning gibbous emoji. The disk is still more than half lit, but the bright area is shrinking after full moon. “Waning” means decreasing. In the Northern Hemisphere view the lit side is on the left.
It is the “just past full” symbol: still bulky, no longer growing.
🌔 is waxing gibbous, the mirror image before full moon, lit mostly on the right. If the bulge is on the left and the Moon is past full, the phase emoji is 🌖.
How to copy the waning gibbous emoji
Use the Copy button above. It puts 🌖 on your clipboard. Paste it into a text, a bio, or a password field.
In HTML, the character is 🌖. You can also paste the character itself: 🌖
When a waning gibbous actually happens
Waning gibbous follows full moon and leads into last quarter, once each 29.5-day cycle. 🌖 is the emoji for that stretch, not for the nights before full moon.
To see which of the eight phase emojis matches a UTC day, open the current phase of the moon emoji page.
The other moon phase emojis
FAQ
- What does the 🌖 waning gibbous emoji mean?
- 🌖 is waning gibbous: more than half lit, shrinking after full moon, bright side on the left. It is the sixth of the eight moon-phase emojis.
- What is the difference between 🌖 and 🌔?
- 🌖 comes after full moon and is waning, lit mostly on the left. 🌔 comes before full moon and is waxing, lit mostly on the right.
- How often does a waning gibbous happen?
- Waning gibbous follows each full moon, about once every 29.5 days. For the phase emoji of a given UTC day, use the current phase of the moon emoji page.
- Which moon emoji does Password Game Rule 13 need?
- Rule 13 asks for the current phase, and that is not always 🌖. The accepted character is one of the eight phase emojis for that UTC day. See Password Game Rule 13, then copy the phase from the daily page.