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:mermaid:U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F🧜‍♀️\1F9DC\200D\2640\FE0F"\u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}"%F0%9F%A7%9C%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8FA mermaid with long hair and a fish tail, standing for the sea, fairy tales and dreamy ocean style.
It shows up in beach photos, pool parties and kids' birthdays, often with ๐ ๐ and ๐ . People use it for long hair, shimmery makeup and the aqua look called โmermaidcoreโ. Swimming in a wearable mermaid tail is also a real hobby.
Mermaid ๐งโโ๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person fantasy. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง merperson and โ๏ธ female sign. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :mermaid:. People also look for it with words like โcreatureโ, โfairytaleโ, โfolkloreโ, or โmerwomanโ.
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