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🌑New Moon Emoji

The new moon emoji 🌑 carries the codepoint U+1F311 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Travel & Places → Weather.

What 🌑 new moon 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 dark, 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+1F311`
HTML hex	`🌑`
HTML decimal	`🌑`
CSS	`\1F311`
JavaScript	`\u{1F311}`
Python	`\U0001F311`
Java / C#	`\uD83C\uDF11`
Rust	`\u{1f311}`
Swift	`\u{1F311}`
PHP	`\u{1F311}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%8C%91`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 8C 91`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83C DF11`
Base64	`8J+MkQ==`
Decimal	`127761`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

Appears in these collections

How to type 🌑

Windows — press Win + . and search “new moon”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “dark”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f311 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 emoji mean?+

🌑 is the new moon emoji, tagged dark, 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 is U+1F311. In HTML that is 🌑, in CSS \1F311, and in JavaScript \u{1F311}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🌑 emoji added?+

new moon got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Unicode 6.0 (2010)

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