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
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Unicode
U+1F9DC U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9dc_1f3fb_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
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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. Ā© Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assetsāsuch as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarksāare excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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