U+1F314 · emoji since 2010
The waxing gibbous moon is almost full, growing brighter night by night. It means building energy, momentum, and a goal nearly reached.
It marks the days before a full moon, a time of anticipation as things steadily come to fruition.
In texting, 🌔 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🌔 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Waxing Gibbous Moon emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the waxing gibbous moon emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🌔 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.