Emoji dictionary
🌕 Full Moon emoji
[ fool moon ih-moh-jee ]
What does 🌕 Full Moon emoji mean?
When the 🌕 hits your eye … The Full Moon emoji 🌕 depicts the celestial object as a round, yellow orb with visible craters. The emoji is used to represent all things lunar, outer space, the night, spiritual sisterhood, and, occasionally, the butt.
Where does 🌕 Full Moon emoji come from?
The Full Moon emoji 🌕 was approved under Unicode 6.0 in 2010 along with other phases of the moon emoji, including Waning Crescent Moon emoji 🌘 and Last Quarter Moon emoji 🌗.
On most platforms, the Full Moon emoji 🌕 glows gold in all its majesty, except for Facebook, which features a soft gray.
In June 2018, the Full Moon emoji 🌕 was notably used to form the backdrop of the Moon Emoji Creep meme, a bizarre-looking character made out of various moon emoji and used for humorous social-media posts.
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘🌑🌒
🌕🌕🌕🌘🌑🌑🌑🌓lost a bet to a guy in
🌕🌕🌖🌑👁🌑👁🌓a chiffon skirt
🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑👃🏻🌑🌔
🌕🌕🌘🌑🌑👄🌒
🌕🌕🌘🌑🌑🌑🌓
🌕🌕🌘🌑🌑🌑🌔but I make those high heels
🌕🌕🌘🌔🌘🌑work
🌕🌖🌒🌕🌗🌒
🌕🌗🌓🌕🌗🌓
🌕🌘🌔🌕🌗🌓
🌕🌑🌔🌕🌗🌓
🌕👠🌕🌕🌕👠— nic | extra account (@trappedindema) June 19, 2018
Examples of 🌕 Full Moon emoji
Who uses 🌕 Full Moon emoji?
True to its name, the Full Moon emoji 🌕 is used to signify plenty of moons on social media, including lunar eclipses, the wonders of space and the night sky, and, well, actual full moons.
The moon is romantic, and so the Full Moon emoji 🌕 can also be for lovers embracing in the night.
under the moonlight ✨🌕#btsfanart #vmin pic.twitter.com/GaPsxbjyFI
— vee 🎠 working & comms open 📌 (@95duet) July 8, 2018
But the moon is also mysterious, with magical beings and scary creatures lurking in the night, like werewolves and their full-moon transformations. The Full Moon emoji 🌕 gleams on a range of content dealing with spooky stuff, especially around Halloween.
I am howling over my new Wolf Man blu ray set!! 🐺 Seriously, so amped on these collections. #halloween feels are stirring, fiends 🎃🌕👻 pic.twitter.com/XhQOWlx4xI
— Madeleine Francine Gray (@MadderGray) July 10, 2018
Certain female groups, or sisterhoods, find mystical meaning in the moon, long associated with goddesses and divine wisdom and energy. The Full Moon emoji 🌕 illuminates much of their social content.
Less transcendental is a full moon, slang for exposing one’s butt in public. Watch out for moonings with the Full Moon emoji 🌕 online! This use echoes the Peach emoji 🍑, often used for a butt online though sometimes in a more sexual context.
In celebration of his fourth birthday, my nephew mooned me today via FaceTime. Ahh, technology. 🌕
— Michele Rhee (@michelerhee) April 18, 2018
Note
This is not meant to be a formal definition of 🌕 Full Moon emoji like most terms we define on Dictionary.com, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of 🌕 Full Moon emoji that will help our users expand their word mastery.