What 🝶 means
Earth’s shadow falls across the Moon.
That is the event named by the astrology glyph 🝶.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 🝶 show as a box?
Your font may not support this character, so it displays an empty box or replacement mark.
How to type 🝶
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F776, then Alt+X to get 🝶.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “lunar eclipse”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f776, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🝶CSS
\1F776Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🝶
HTML hex
🝶
CSS content
content: "\1F776";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%9D%B6
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.