Crescent moon may refer to:
Lunar phases
*Fingernail moon, a
lunar phase
Concerning the lunar month of ~29.53 days as viewed from Earth, the lunar phase or Moon phase is the shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion, which can be expressed quantitatively using areas or angles, or described qualitatively using the t ...
waxing until 7 days after or waning since 7 days before the new moon
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Hilal (crescent moon)
Hilal or Al-Hilal may refer to:
*Hilal ( ar, هلال, ''hilāl''), a crescent
** the crescent Moon visible after a new Moon, determining the beginning of a month in the Islamic calendar
* Banu Hilal, a confederation of tribes of Arabia
Arts ...
, an Arabic term for the very slight crescent moon that is first visible after a new moon
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Crescent Moon (comics), a fictional DC comics character
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''Crescent Moon'' (manga), the English title of the shōjo manga Mikan no Tsuki
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"Crescent Moon" (song), Mika Nakashima's 2nd single
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"Crescent Moon" (''The Avengers''), an episode of the television series ''The Avengers''
*Crescent Moon Darnel, nicknamed Cress, a character in ''
The Lunar Chronicles
''The Lunar Chronicles'' is a series of four young adult science fiction fantasy novels, a novella and a short story collection written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Feiwel & Friends. Each book entails a science fictional tw ...
'' by Marissa Meyer
*''The Crescent Moon'', a 1913 collection of poetry by
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
*The crescent moon featured in the logo for the English dub of ''
Sailor Moon
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's ''shōjo'' manga magazine ''Nakayoshi'' from 1991 to 1997; the 52 individual chapters were published in 18 volumes. The seri ...
''.
Other uses
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Anjaneyasana, or crescent moon, an asana (body position) in yoga
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Crescent Moon Society The Crescent Moon Society () was a Chinese literary society founded by the poet Xu Zhimo in 1923, which operated until 1931. It was named after ''The Crescent Moon'', a poem by Rabindranath Tagore. The society began as a loosely-organized dining ass ...
, a Chinese former literary society
See also
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Crescent (disambiguation)
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Demilune (disambiguation)
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Half Moon (disambiguation)
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Star and crescent, an iconographic symbol sometimes associated with Islam
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