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🌚New Moon Face Emoji

Unicode added 🌚 new moon face in Emoji 1.0 (2015), filed under Travel & Places → Weather. Its codepoint is U+1F31A, and it is tagged face, moon and new.

What 🌚 new moon face means

Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.

Unicode tags this one face, moon and new and files it under Travel & Places → Weather.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F31A`
HTML hex	`🌚`
HTML decimal	`🌚`
CSS	`\1F31A`
JavaScript	`\u{1F31A}`
Python	`\U0001F31A`
Java / C#	`\uD83C\uDF1A`
Rust	`\u{1f31a}`
Swift	`\u{1F31A}`
PHP	`\u{1F31A}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%8C%9A`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 8C 9A`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83C DF1A`
Base64	`8J+Mmg==`
Decimal	`127770`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Keywords

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How to type 🌚

Windows — press Win + . and search “new moon face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “face”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f31a and Enter.
HTML — paste 🌚.

How 🌚 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🌚Apple
🌚Segoe
🌚Noto
🌚System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🌚 new moon face emoji mean?+

🌚 is the new moon face emoji, tagged face, moon and new. Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.

What is the Unicode code for 🌚?+

new moon face is U+1F31A. In HTML that is 🌚, in CSS \1F31A, and in JavaScript \u{1F31A}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🌚 emoji added?+

new moon face got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🌚 new moon face.