Ramadan and Eid Emojis: A Set for Every Moment of the Month

Ramadan 2027 is expected to begin around Monday 8 February, with Eid al-Fitr on 9 or 10 March, but the moon decides, not the calendar. For Ramadan and Eid emojis, the dependable core is 🌙 ☪️ 🕌 📿 🤲, and the most useful thing to know is that 🤲, not 🙏, is the hand gesture many Muslims use for dua. Below are sets for each part of the month, from the first suhoor to Eid al-Adha.

The 2027 dates, and why they are approximate

The Islamic calendar is lunar, and each month begins with the sighting of the new crescent. Predictions are made in advance, then confirmed or shifted by a day when the moon is actually looked for. Different countries sometimes land on different days.

• Ramadan begins: expected around Monday 8 February 2027. Khaleej Times reported in 2026, for the UAE, that the crescent may be visible on 6 or 7 February.
• Eid al-Fitr: expected Tuesday 9 March or Wednesday 10 March 2027, depending on the Shawwal moon.
• Eid al-Adha: expected Sunday 16 May or Monday 17 May 2027, with the Day of Arafah the day before.

These are the UAE estimates published by Khaleej Times and Gulf News in August and September 2026. Your local mosque or national authority has the final word. Our holiday countdown uses the most likely date and says so.

The core glyphs and how old they are

Before building any set, it helps to know what you have to work with. All versions here come from our Unicode catalog.

• 🌙 crescent moon: Emoji 0.6, encoded in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The most universally readable Ramadan emoji, and it works on every phone still in use.
• ☪️ star and crescent: Emoji 0.7, Unicode 7.0, 2014. Unicode files it in the "religion" subgroup of its symbol list.
• 🕌 mosque: Emoji 1.0, 2015. Drawn with a dome and minaret on most platforms.
• 🕋 kaaba: Emoji 1.0, 2015. The black cube at the centre of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.
• 📿 prayer beads: Emoji 1.0, 2015. Deliberately generic, so it covers the misbaha or tasbih as well as rosaries and malas.
• 🤲 palms up together: Emoji 5.0, 2017.
• 🫖 teapot and 🫓 flatbread: both Emoji 13.0, 2020.

One caution on ☪️. Wikipedia's article on the symbol notes it became widely associated with Islam through the flag of the Ottoman Empire, and that some Muslims reject it as an Islamic symbol for exactly that reason. Plenty of people use it happily. If you are writing to someone whose views you do not know, 🌙 and 🕌 carry the same meaning with none of the debate.

🤲 versus 🙏: the hand question

This is the mistake we see most in Ramadan messages, and it is an understandable one.

🙏 folded hands came from Japanese phone sets and was encoded in 2010. Emojipedia describes its original meaning as "please" or "thank you" in Japanese culture, with prayer as a common secondary use. The pressed-palms posture is the one most people in Christian or Hindu contexts picture when they think of praying.

Dua, personal supplication in Islam, is usually made with the hands raised and open, palms facing up, side by side. That is what 🤲 shows. Emojipedia lists "the gesture used by followers of Islam when praying" among its uses, alongside the ASL sign for an open book.

So which should you use? Nobody will be offended by 🙏 in a sincere message, and many Muslims use it themselves for "thank you" or "please pray for me". But if you want the gesture that actually matches dua, 🤲 is the accurate one, and it signals that you know the difference. Our hand emoji meanings guide covers the rest of the hand set, and the hand emoji copy-paste list includes the skin-tone variants of 🤲.

There is no date emoji

Breaking the fast with dates is one of the most familiar Ramadan customs, following a practice attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. Yet if you search our catalog of every fully qualified emoji, up to and including the Emoji 18.0 release Unicode signed off on 16 September 2026, there is no date fruit. We checked every name in it; the nearest food entries are 🫒 olive (Emoji 13.0, 2020) and 🫘 beans (Emoji 14.0, 2021).

We could not find a public Unicode proposal for one either, which suggests nobody has yet submitted the evidence the committee asks for.

What people use instead, from most to least readable:

• 🌴 palm tree. The date palm is a palm, and in a Ramadan context people get it.
• 🫘 beans. Brown and oval, and sometimes pressed into service, though out of context it just looks like beans.
• 🟤 brown circle. Abstract, but in a row of 🟤🟤🟤 next to 🥛 it reads as a plate of dates.
• Writing the word. "Dates 🌴" is clearer than any of the above, and we would honestly recommend it.

Sets for each moment, from first night to Eid al-Adha

We put these together by hand, one moment at a time, because a single "Ramadan emoji" string does not fit a 4am suhoor and an Eid morning equally. Each line is ready to copy.

The moon is sighted, Ramadan begins

• 🌙✨🕌Ramadan MubarakCopy
• 🌒🤍🤲May it be a blessed monthCopy
• 🌙📖🤍Welcoming the month of the QuranCopy

Suhoor, the meal before dawn

• ⏰🌌🍳Suhoor alarm, everyone upCopy
• 🥛🌴🥣Dates, milk and oats before fajrCopy
• 😴⏰🍽️Half asleep at the table againCopy

Iftar, breaking the fast at sunset

• 🌅🌴🥛Sunset, dates and waterCopy
• 🍲🫓🫖Iftar is servedCopy
• 🧆🥙🍵Falafel nightCopy
• 🤲🌅🍽️Dua before we eatCopy

🧆 falafel is Emoji 12.0 (2019) and 🥙 stuffed flatbread Emoji 3.0 (2016), so both are safe on any recent phone. 🫓 and 🫖 are the newest in the set; on a device from before 2020 they may show as boxes.

The last ten nights and Laylat al-Qadr

Laylat al-Qadr, the Night of Power, is believed by many Sunni Muslims to fall on one of the odd-numbered nights in the last ten, with the 27th the most commonly observed. Shia tradition gives special weight to the 19th, 21st and 23rd. Its exact date is not known, so these sets are for the whole stretch.

• 🌙📿🤲Up for the last ten nightsCopy
• 🕌✨🌌A night better than a thousand monthsCopy
• 📖🕯️🤍Quiet night of prayerCopy

Restraint suits this part of the month. We would not put 🎉 anywhere near it.

Eid al-Fitr morning

• 🌙🎉🕌Eid MubarakCopy
• 👗✨🍬Eid clothes on, sweets outCopy
• 💌💰🤗Eidi for the kidsCopy
• 🧁🍰☕Every relative's dessert tableCopy

Eidi is the money or small gift handed to children on Eid, which is where 💰 and 💌 earn their place. The morning itself starts with the Eid prayer, so a 🕌 sent before noon matches what most families are actually doing.

In Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei the festival is Hari Raya Aidilfitri, and in Indonesia it is Lebaran. The signature dish there is ketupat, rice packed into a woven palm-leaf casing, and like dates it has no emoji. 🍙 rice ball is the usual stand-in, which is a Japanese onigiri, so accept the compromise or write the word.

Eid al-Adha

Eid al-Adha commemorates the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son, and the ram provided in his place. It falls on the 10th of Dhu al-Hijjah, at the close of the Hajj. Those who can afford it sacrifice a sheep, goat, cow or camel, and the meat is traditionally shared in thirds between family, friends and those in need.

• 🕋🤍🤲Eid al-Adha MubarakCopy
• 🐑🍖🤝Sharing the qurbaniCopy
• 🕋🌄🤲Thinking of the pilgrims on ArafahCopy

Choose the animal with some thought. 🐑 ewe is the softest drawing; 🐏 ram matches the story most directly. Some people prefer to leave animals out of greetings altogether and keep to 🕋 and 🤲, which is never wrong.

Greetings, in Arabic script and English

Arabic is written right to left, and we have checked each of these character by character. Copy the whole line rather than retyping.

• رمضان مبارك (Ramadan Mubarak), "blessed Ramadan": 🌙🤍
• رمضان كريم (Ramadan Kareem), "generous Ramadan": 🌙✨. The customary reply is الله أكرم (Allahu akram), "God is more generous".
• عيد مبارك (Eid Mubarak), "blessed Eid": 🕌🎉
• عيد سعيد (Eid Saeed), "happy Eid": 🌙😊
• تقبل الله منا ومنكم (Taqabbal Allahu minna wa minkum), "may God accept it from us and from you", a traditional Eid greeting: 🤲🤍
• كل عام وأنتم بخير (Kull aam wa antum bikhair), "may you be well every year": 🌙🌸

A small number of Muslims avoid "Ramadan Kareem", on the reasoning that generosity belongs to God rather than to a month. Most do not mind. If you are unsure, Ramadan Mubarak is the uncontested choice.

One practical quirk with Arabic: emoji are direction-neutral characters, so an emoji typed at the end of an Arabic sentence appears on the left, where the sentence ends. If you mix English and Arabic in one message, emoji can jump to unexpected positions. Giving the emoji a line to itself avoids the jumping. Our site also runs a full Arabic edition, so the crescent moon and mosque pages can be shared with Arabic-reading family in their own script.

Sending these as a non-Muslim friend or colleague

A lot of Ramadan messages are sent by people who are not fasting themselves: a manager wishing a team member well, a neighbour, a classmate. That is welcome, and it is easy to get right.

Keep the first message short and specific. "Ramadan Mubarak 🌙" on the first day is perfect. You do not need to explain what you know about the month, and you definitely do not need a row of six glyphs. One crescent says it.

Timing matters more than the emoji. Daytime food photos in a work chat during Ramadan are thoughtless rather than offensive, so if you are posting 🍕 at lunch, maybe skip the tag. A quick "hope iftar was good 🌅" in the evening lands far better than anything at noon.

For Eid, it is fine to be louder. 🎉 is right there, the fast is over, and people are celebrating. Eid Mubarak with 🌙🎉 is exactly what a colleague would send.

And if you are not sure whether someone observes Ramadan, do not guess from a name. A general "hope you have a good week" covers you either way.

Glyphs to avoid or use carefully

• 🍷 🍺 🍸 anywhere in a Ramadan or Eid set. Alcohol is forbidden in Islam, and 🥂 counts too, however festive it looks.
• 🐷 and 🐖. Pork is forbidden in Islam; a pig in a food-themed Eid message will land badly.
• ⭐ on its own as a stand-in for ☪️. It reads as generic praise, not religious.
• Heavy party glyphs during the fast itself. 🎉 and 🥳 fit Eid; during Ramadan, 🤍 and ✨ suit the mood better.

Where to find more

The Ramadan emoji hub and Eid al-Fitr emoji hub collect themed sets for each festival, and Ramadan emoji combos has longer strings sorted by mood. Ramadan drifts about 11 days earlier every solar year, which is why 2028's start is projected for late January. For the year at a glance, our emoji calendar for every occasion lists the moving festivals together.

If 🫓 or 🫖 shows up as a box on someone's phone, it is a font age problem, not a mistake on your part. The guide to emoji showing as a box explains what to do.