What is the difference between Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol and First Quarter Moon?

Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol is U+1F312 in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. First Quarter Moon is U+263D in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol?

The HTML entity for Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol (U+1F312) is 🌒.

What is the HTML entity for First Quarter Moon?

The HTML entity for First Quarter Moon (U+263D) is ☽.

Are Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol and First Quarter Moon the same Unicode character?

No. Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol is U+1F312 (decimal 127762) and First Quarter Moon is U+263D (decimal 9789). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol and First Quarter Moon?

Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol (U+1F312) encodes as F0 9F 8C 92 in UTF-8. First Quarter Moon (U+263D) encodes as E2 98 BD in UTF-8.

Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol vs First Quarter Moon

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

🌒

Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol

U+1F312

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☽

First Quarter Moon

U+263D

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Property Comparison

Property	Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol	First Quarter Moon
Codepoint	`U+1F312`	`U+263D`
Decimal	`127762`	`9789`
HTML Entity	`🌒`	`☽`
HTML Decimal	`🌒`	`☽`
HTML Hex	`🌒`	`☽`
UTF-8	`F0 9F 8C 92`	`E2 98 BD`
UTF-16	`D8 3C DF 12`	`26 3D`
UTF-32	`0001F312`	`0000263D`
CSS Escape	`\1F312`	`\263D`
JS Escape	`\uD83C\uDF12`	`\u263D`
Python Escape	`\U0001F312`	`\u263D`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9F%8C%92`	`%E2%98%BD`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Symbol (So)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs`	`Miscellaneous Symbols`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`6.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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