🌑New Moon Emoji
Basically, when someone sends you 🌑 in a text, they’re usually talking about a new beginning or a period of darkness before something new starts. It's a visual way to say "fresh start" or "let's begin.
The 🌑 emoji represents a new moon.
- Unicode
- U+1F311
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :new_moon:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌑 New Moon emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
People also look for it as dark moon emoji.
New Moon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the new moon as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
New Moon emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :new_moon:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F311.
How to type the 🌑 New Moon emoji
No picker to hand? The new moon can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
New Moon emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the new moon as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
New Moon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around new moon for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🌑, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🌑 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the new moon and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🌑 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the new moon lands changes how it is taken.
🌑 vs 🌝 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: New Moon
Code: U+1F311 · added 2010
Shortcode: :new_moon:
Basically, when someone sends you 🌑 in a text, they’re usually talking about a new beginning or a period of darkness before something new starts.
Unicode name: Full Moon Face
Code: U+1F31D · added 2015
Shortcode: :full_moon_with_face:
Generally, it just means the person is referencing the full moon.
Where the 🌑 New Moon emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F311 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🌑 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E69C, KDDI au E5A8.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
New Moon was approved as U+1F311 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🌑 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.