U+1F31A "🌚" New Moon with Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🌚
U+1F31A "🌚" New Moon with Face is a graphical symbol that depicts a completely dark, shadowed lunar disk paired with a subtle, often eerily neutral facial expression. It is part of the Emoji 1.0 standard and is commonly used in digital communication to convey feelings of mystery, irony, awkwardness, or a dry, morbid sense of humor. Unlike its brighter crescent counterparts, this emoji’s blank stare and darkened surface can suggest secrecy, the unknown, or a quiet acknowledgment of something strange or uncomfortable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F31A |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | New Moon with Face |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🌚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🌚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F31A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf1a |