☾

• ☽ (for all senses but [4]), rarely 🌙︎. In the medieval Marcianus graecus 299 manuscript, ☾ is silver and ☽ quicksilver.

The lunar crescent is an ancient symbol for the moon.^[1] Its orientation varies between increscent and decrescent.

☾

1. Night; nighttime; evening; twilight; darkness.
2. Sleep; rest; bedtime.
3. (astronomy, astrology) The Moon.
4. (astronomy, rare) A natural satellite.
5. (astronomy, astrology, rare) The last quarter of the Moon.

   Synonym: 🌗

6. synonym of ☪ (“Islam”)
7. (figurative) Menstruation.
8. (figurative) Change; transformation; transition.
9. (graphical user interface, signage) Do not disturb; quiet.
10. (graphical user interface, computing) Sleep mode; off.
11. (graphical user interface) Night mode: a colour scheme with light text on a dark background.
12. (alchemy) Silver.

    Synonym: 🜛

    • 1650, Paracelsus, “Of the Nature of Things”, in John French, transl., A New Light of Alchymie (in English), page 74:

      Firſt of all bring Copper with ☿ ſublimate, and fixt Arſenick to bee white, yea as white as ☾, then beat it ſmall.

13. (rare) Monday

    Refers to the Latin phrase dies Lunae, which literally means "Moon's day".

• (astronomy): M_☾ – lunar mass (as a unit of measurement for astronomical bodies; more commonly M_L).

R_☾ – lunar radius (as a unit of measurement; more commonly R_L).

• (alchemy): ☾⃞ (silver leaf, silver foil)

• Late Classical and Medieval form
• A ms form from ca. 1750
• A decorative variant in the Netherlands
• As a symbol for silver
• An abstract variant
• Symbol on a silver background

• 🝶 (lunar eclipse)
• 🌕︎, 🌑︎
• ⚸

• ☽

☾a f (genitive ☾ae); first declension

1. (alchemy) scribal abbreviation of luna (“moon”)

First-declension noun.

• ☾ae