Merman: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A male merman with medium-dark skin, depicted with a muscular human torso and a green fish tail. He represents the classic mythological figure of a sea-dweller, often associated with legends of the deep.

Usage Context

Used to discuss ocean mythology, fantasy storytelling, or aquatic adventures. It is frequently paired with other nautical icons like 🧜‍♀️ to represent pairs or with 🔱 to symbolize the traditional trident of the sea gods.

History

The merman emoji was introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 as part of a wider push for inclusive gender and skin-tone variations for fantasy characters. The addition of modifiers like this one allows for better representation of mythical creatures across diverse cultures.

Details

Glyph

🧜🏾‍♂

Unicode

U+1F9DC U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9dc_1f3fe_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDDC;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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