Merperson emoji 🧜
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F9DC
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🧜 means
Merperson 🧜 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: creature, fairytale, folklore, ocean, sea, siren, trident.
Those words also drive emoji search: try creature or fairytale on your phone to find 🧜.
On the emoji keyboard, 🧜 sits with the fantasy characters (33 emoji) inside people & body, which has 390 emoji, for example 🧜♂️ 🧜♀️ 🧝 🧝♂️.
You can send 🧜 in 5 skin tones (🧜🏻 to 🧜🏿) or in the default yellow; tap any of them above to copy it.
Will 🧜 show on my friend's phone?
🧜 dates from Emoji 5.0 (2017). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🧜
To find 🧜 quickly, type merperson into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type merperson.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type merperson in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type merperson.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🧜 as one code point, U+1F9DC: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9DC | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧜 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧜 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9DC"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9DC} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%9C | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 9C |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧜 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | merperson |
| Português | pessoa sereia |
| Español | persona sirena |
| Italiano | sirena |
| Français | créature aquatique |
| Deutsch | Wassermensch |
| Türkçe | balık insan |
| Bahasa Indonesia | orang duyung |
| Polski | syrena |
| Русский | русалка |
| 日本語 | 人魚 |
| 한국어 | 인어 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the merperson emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧜 "merperson" and links it with creature, fairytale, folklore, ocean. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the fantasy characters subgroup of people & body.
When was the merperson emoji added?
In Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. Phones updated since about 2018 show it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🧜?
Yes. 🧜 has these skin tones: 🧜🏻 🧜🏼 🧜🏽 🧜🏾 🧜🏿. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.