Merperson
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- Shortcode
:merperson:- Unicode
U+1F9DC- HTML
🧜- CSS
\1F9DC- JavaScript
"\u{1F9DC}"- URL
%F0%9F%A7%9C
What ๐ง means
A figure with a human upper body and a fish tail, standing for merfolk, the sea and ocean folklore.
People use it for beach days, swimming and sea-themed parties, with ๐ or ๐. It also fits fantasy stories, and works as a gender-neutral take on a mermaid or merman.
Facts
Merperson ๐ง 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 comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :merperson:. People also look for it with words like โcreatureโ, โfairytaleโ, โfolkloreโ, or โoceanโ.
Timeline
- 2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)
- 2017Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 5.0)
- 20172 new emoji built from it (Emoji 5.0)๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ
Design history
Google (Noto)
2019
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2017
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.