Mermaid: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A mythical sea creature featuring a woman with a flowing tail, rendered here with a medium skin tone. The figure is shown from the waist up, depicted with long hair and a classic aquatic silhouette.
Usage Context
Widely used to represent swimming, vacations, or a love for the ocean. It often serves as a shorthand for the 'Little Mermaid' archetype or to add a touch of fantasy to messages about the beach. Users frequently pair it with the water wave or tropical fish to build an underwater scene.
History
The mermaid emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of the Emoji 5.0 rollout. The update focused on increasing diversity by introducing skin tone modifiers for professional and fantasy-based character emojis, which were previously limited to a single default appearance.
Details
Glyph
🧜🏽♀
Unicode
U+1F9DC U+1F3FD U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9dc_1f3fd_200d_2640:
HTML Entity
����‍♀
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-fantasy
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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