Merman

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Shortcode
:merman:
Unicode
U+1F9DC U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
HTML
🧜‍♂️
CSS
\1F9DC\200D\2642\FE0F
JavaScript
"\u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}"
URL
%F0%9F%A7%9C%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F

NeptunePoseidonTritoncreaturefairytalefolkloreoceanseasirentrident

What ๐Ÿงœโ€โ™‚๏ธ means

A merman with a fish tail, often shown with a trident like the sea gods Poseidon, Neptune and Triton.

It fits Greek myth, ocean posts and beach trips. Friends send it to a strong swimmer, a guy who lives in the pool, or someone with long, salty beach hair. Pair with ๐Ÿ”ฑ for the sea-god look.

Facts

Merman ๐Ÿงœโ€โ™‚๏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 ๐Ÿงœ merperson and โ™‚๏ธ male 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 :merman:. People also look for it with words like โ€œNeptuneโ€, โ€œPoseidonโ€, โ€œTritonโ€, or โ€œcreatureโ€.

Made of

๐Ÿงœ+โ™‚๏ธ=๐Ÿงœโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Timeline

  1. 2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)
  2. 2017Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 5.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. merman, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. merman, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  3. merman, Google (Noto) design from 20262026

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. merman, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20172017
  2. merman, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20192019

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Emoji 5.0