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 Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-fantasy
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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