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New moon face Emoji

🌚 New moon face

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🌚 Emoji meaning

Mischievous, ironic, secretive, embarrassing, or slightly creepy.

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🌚 Meaning

New moon with face. Is usually perceived as creepy and eerie. Can also symbolize the man in the moon.

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Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “New moon face” was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ new + space

Keywords removed

- new moon face

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ new moon face

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ face + moon

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(2) Comments

Anonymous 8/11/2025
More common among Finns than other peoples. Means a sarcastic or sardonic smile, a smile of exhaustion, looking at something and thinking “wtf“. Not a real smile, more like a smile and mockery at the same time.
Olives 7/18/2025
Dark moon with smiling face is a flirting face, symbolizing that you feel like getting intimate with someone.