Merman: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A dark-skinned male figure featuring a human torso that transitions into a long, scaly fish tail. He represents a classic merman character often associated with maritime mythology.
Usage Context
Used to discuss ocean-themed movies, fantasy literature, or when talking about merfolk. It serves as a male counterpart to the mermaid emoji and is frequently used alongside other water-themed icons like ocean or fish.
History
The base merman emoji arrived in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to expand gender and professional variety across the emoji set. The dark skin tone variant was added shortly after via the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence system, which allows users to apply Fitzpatrick scale modifiers to human-based icons for better representation.
Details
Glyph
🧜🏿♂
Unicode
U+1F9DC U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9dc_1f3ff_200d_2642:
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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