What 🝵 means
One body hides another from the viewer. A solar eclipse is one case; the Moon can also hide a planet.
Why does this symbol show as a box?
The app’s font may lack the glyph. A blank or replacement box is a font issue, not a different symbol. Unicode’s 2022 proposal says the eclipse signs were not intended as emoji.
Specialist notation for astrology, eclipses, and occultations.
It can mark the Moon hiding a planet, not just the Sun.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Questions people ask
1Why does 🝵 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type or find 🝵
- Search it as
- occultation symbol · solar eclipse symbol · astrology eclipse
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🝵\1F775Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.



