New moon
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- Shortcode
:new_moon:- Unicode
U+1F311- HTML
🌑- CSS
\1F311- JavaScript
"\u{1F311}"- URL
%F0%9F%8C%91
What ๐ means
A dark disk, the new moon, when the side facing Earth gets no sunlight. It stands for darkness, the night and fresh starts.
Astrology fans set new-moon intentions with it, often next to โจ or ๐ฏ๏ธ. Others use it for deep darkness or a pitch-black night. Lined up as ๐๐๐๐๐, the phases show progress or change over time.
Facts
New moon ๐ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under sky weather. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :new_moon:. People also look for it with words like โdarkโ, โmoonโ, โnewโ, or โspaceโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.