Merperson: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A mythical sea dweller with a human torso and a long, scaly fish tail, rendered with a medium-dark skin tone. It features long, flowing hair and is often associated with the mysteries of the deep ocean.

Usage Context

Used to represent folklore, fantasy, or a love for the beach and swimming. It is frequently sent alongside ocean-themed icons like 🌊 or 🐚 when discussing myths, fantasy literature, or summer vacations.

History

The base mermaid emoji was added to Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to expand the range of fantasy characters in messaging. Skin tone modifiers were introduced shortly thereafter as part of the ongoing effort to make digital representation more inclusive across all character types.

Details

Glyph

🧜🏾

Unicode

U+1F9DC U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9dc_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDDC;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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