Merman: light skin tone Emoji
People
A male merman figure depicted with light skin, sporting a flowing beard, long hair, and a fish tail. It represents the legendary aquatic creature from various world mythologies.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to discuss sea life, swimming, or fantasy lore. It is often swapped into conversations about the ocean alongside the mermaid or water wave to add a touch of myth to a message.
History
Added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017, the merman was introduced to expand gender options for mythical creature emojis, following the initial release of the standard mermaid. Its inclusion was part of a larger push by the Unicode Consortium to improve gender and skin tone representation across the entire emoji catalog.
Details
Glyph
🧜🏻♂
Unicode
U+1F9DC U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9dc_1f3fb_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-fantasy
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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