Merperson: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A mythical sea dweller with a human torso and a long, scaly fish tail, rendered with a medium-dark skin tone. It features long, flowing hair and is often associated with the mysteries of the deep ocean.

Usage Context

Used to represent folklore, fantasy, or a love for the beach and swimming. It is frequently sent alongside ocean-themed icons like 🌊 or 🐚 when discussing myths, fantasy literature, or summer vacations.

History

The base mermaid emoji was added to Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to expand the range of fantasy characters in messaging. Skin tone modifiers were introduced shortly thereafter as part of the ongoing effort to make digital representation more inclusive across all character types.

Details

Glyph

🧜🏾

Unicode

U+1F9DC U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9dc_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDDC;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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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