Merperson: light skin tone Emoji

People

A mythical sea creature with the upper body of a person featuring a pale complexion and the scaly tail of a fish. The figure is posed in a standard profile view, commonly associated with deep-sea folklore.

Usage Context

Used to represent tales of the ocean, swimming, or fantasy settings. It is often combined with 🌊 for aquatic themes or 🧜‍♀️ to discuss the full spectrum of mermaid mythology in modern pop culture and digital storytelling.

History

While merfolk have appeared in global mythology for centuries, this specific character variant was added to the Unicode standard in 2017. Its inclusion was part of a broader effort to provide more inclusive gender and skin-tone representation for fantasy-themed icons.

Details

Glyph

🧜🏻

Unicode

U+1F9DC U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9dc_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDDC;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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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