First Quarter Moon
First Quarter Moon has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ☽
- Unicode
- U+263D
About this symbol
The crescent moon stood for silver in alchemy, the metal paired with the Moon among the seven classical planets. In Unicode names a first quarter moon faces right, like ☽, and a last quarter moon faces left, like ☾.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- FIRST QUARTER MOON
- Also called
- Alchemical symbol for silver
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Astrological symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- 🌓 First Quarter Moon Symbol U+1F313
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