Crescent moon explained

Crescent moon may refer to:

Lunar phases

• Fingernail moon, a lunar phase waxing until 7 days after or waning since 7 days before the new moon
• Hilal (crescent moon), an Arabic term for the very slight crescent moon that is first visible after a new moon

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Crescent Moon (comics), a fictional DC comics character
• Crescent Moon (manga), the English title of the shōjo manga Mikan no Tsuki
• "Crescent Moon" (song), Mika Nakashima's 2nd single
• "Crescent Moon" (The Avengers), an episode of the television series The Avengers
• Crescent Moon Darnel, nicknamed Cress, a character in The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
• The Crescent Moon, a 1913 collection of poetry by Rabindranath Tagore
• The crescent moon featured in the logo for the English dub of Sailor Moon.

Other uses

• Anjaneyasana, or crescent moon, an asana (body position) in yoga
• Crescent Moon Society, a Chinese former literary society

See also

• • • Crescent (disambiguation)
• Demilune (disambiguation)
• Half Moon (disambiguation)
• Star and crescent, an iconographic symbol sometimes associated with Islam