U+1F776 LUNAR ECLIPSE
U+1F776 was added to Unicode in version 15.0 (2022). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F776 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are exactly or very closely aligned (in syzygy) with Earth between the other two, which can happen only on the night of a full moon when the Moon is near either lunar node. The type and length of a lunar eclipse depend on the Moon's proximity to the lunar node.
The reddish color of totally eclipsed Moon is caused by Earth completely blocking direct sunlight from reaching the Moon, with the only light reflected from the lunar surface has been refracted by Earth's atmosphere. This light appears reddish for the same reason that a sunset or sunrise does: the Rayleigh scattering of blue light.
Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. A total lunar eclipse can last up to nearly 2 hours, while a total solar eclipse lasts only up to a few minutes at any given place, because the Moon's shadow is smaller. Also unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to view without any eye protection or special precautions, as they are dimmer than a normal full Moon.
The symbol for a lunar eclipse (or indeed any body in the shadow of another) is (U+1F776 πΆ).
For the date of the next eclipse, see Β§Β Recent and forthcoming lunar eclipses.
Representations
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NΒΊ | 128886 |
UTF-8 | F0 9F 9D B6 |
UTF-16 | D8 3D DF 76 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 F7 76 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%9D%B6 |
HTML-Escape | 🝶 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΒΒΒΆ |
Elsewhere
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