🌚New Moon Face Emoji
Basically, it's just a cute way to say something’s dark or mysterious. People use it to add a little mood to their texts, like a subtle vibe.
The 🌚 emoji represents a new moon face.
- Unicode
- U+1F31A
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :new_moon_with_face:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌚 New Moon Face emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
New Moon Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the new moon face 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 Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :new_moon_with_face:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F31A.
How to type the 🌚 New Moon Face emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F31A when there is no key at all.
New Moon Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the new moon face 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 Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around new moon face 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🌚 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🌚 vs 🌝 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: New Moon Face
Code: U+1F31A · added 2015
Shortcode: :new_moon_with_face:
Basically, it's just a cute way to say something’s dark or mysterious.
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 Face emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the new moon face has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F31A 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.
New Moon Face was approved as U+1F31A and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.