Star and the crescent emoji is yet another in the religious emojis collection and this one is used to represent the youngest of the monotheistic faiths that was founded in Saudi Arabia and has a lots of followers across the globe. It is originally used as a symbol by Turkish people and one of the things that you’ll probably notice as decoration to the holy places in Turkey. Also, this emoji represents the lunar calendar that Muslims follow and the humanitarian community that is the Muslim version of the Red Cross and is also founded in Turkey by their ruler.
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Note: - If you can't see the emoji, your device may not support Star and Crescent emoji but you can still use it on other platforms.
Representations : Symbol Star Crescent can be represented by ☪️ emoji.
but currently not supported in HTC, Messenger, Mozilla
Star and Crescent may look different on every device. In the above images you can view how Star and Crescent emoji appears on different devices. Emoji of Star and Crescent can be used on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and many other platforms and OS but not supported in HTC, Messenger, Mozilla. Some devices may show a blank box or X instead of Star and Crescent emoji as every device doesn't support each one of the emoji.
This is one of the first emojis introduced in Unicode 1.1 in July, 1995 which was after several years added to very first version of Emoji 1.0 in August, 2015. Star and Crescent emoji appeared on iOS 9.1, Android 6.0.1, EmojiOne 2.0 for the first time.
| Language | Short Name |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Estrella y media luna |
| German | Stern und Halbmond |
| French | Étoile et croissant |
| Russian | Звезда и полумесяц |
| Italian | Stella e Mezzaluna |
| Portuguese | Estrela e Crescente |
| Unicode : | U+262A |
| Hex Code | |
|---|---|
| Code Point(s): | 262a |
| HTML Entity: | ☪ |
| UTF-8: | E2 98 AA, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 (C): | E2 98 AA, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-16: | 0x262a, fe0f |
| UTF-16 (C): | 0x262A, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-32: | 262A |
| UTF-32 (C): | 0x0000262A |
| Decimal Code | |
| Code Point(s): | 9770, 65039 |
| HTML Entity: | ☪️ |
| UTF-16: | 9770, 65039 |
| UTF-32: | 9770, 65039 |
| Octal Code | |
| UTF-8: | 342 230 252, 357 270 217 |
| Other developer codes: | |
| PHP: | "\xe2\x98\xaa,\x\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| Python: | u"\U000262A" |
| Java, C++, C: | "0x262A, \uFE0F" |
