🌑️ New moon emoji
HTML
🌑
Unicode
U+1F311
What is 🌑️ called?
🌑️ is called the New moon emoji.
Also known as dark moon or invisible moon. These terms reflect common wording, regional usage, or how the symbol looks; Unicode’s official name is new moon.
What does 🌑️ mean?
🌑 is officially named new moon. The new moon phase when the moon is positioned between Earth and the sun, making it invisible from Earth as its illuminated side faces away from us. This represents new beginnings, fresh starts, and cyclical renewal in lunar observations.
Use it for literal references to new moon and for new beginnings, fresh starts, potential, cyclical renewal, hidden preparation. At astronomical new moon, the near side is mostly unlit; the solid dark disk is a stylised representation. Related choices include 🌒 Waxing crescent moon and 🌓 First quarter moon.
Other meanings
It can mean new beginnings, fresh starts, potential, cyclical renewal, hidden preparation. Context determines whether the message is literal, astronomical, meteorological, seasonal, or symbolic.
Example Usage
During the new moon 🌑, the night sky was filled with brilliant stars
The sky or weather note shows new moon 🌑
More details
Officially named new moon. Its code point is U+1F311. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0.
Related emoji
Earth Hour emojis
Visual description
A completely dark circular shape representing the invisible new moon phase.
At astronomical new moon, the near side is mostly unlit; the solid dark disk is a stylised representation. Colours, proportions, orientation, and fine details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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