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🧜♂️Merman Emoji
🧜♂️ is the merman emoji, U+1F9DC U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F, one of 33 in the Fantasy set. It arrived with Emoji 5.0 (2017) and is commonly used for creature, fairytale and folklore.
What 🧜♂️ merman means
Santa, angels, and the 2017 batch of fantasy figures - 🧙, 🧚, 🧛, 🧜, 🧝, 🧞, 🧟 - which Unicode added as a set with man, woman and neutral variants. They get used for Halloween and tabletop games, but also metaphorically: 🧚 for something whimsical, 🧟 for how you feel before coffee, 🦸 for anyone who did you a favor.
Unicode tags this one creature, fairytale and folklore and files it under People & Body → Fantasy.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🧜♂️ is built
This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9DC U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧜‍♂️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🧜‍♂️ | |
| CSS | \1F9DC\200D\2642\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F9DC\U0000200D\U00002642\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDDC\u200D\u2642\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f9dc}\u{200d}\u{2642}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%9C%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 9C E2 80 8D E2 99 82 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDDC 200D 2642 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+nnOKAjeKZgu+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 129500 8205 9794 65039 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 5.0 (2017) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🧜♂️ emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🧜♂️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “merman”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “creature”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9dcand Enter. - HTML — paste
🧜‍♂️.
How 🧜♂️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🧜♂️Apple
- 🧜♂️Segoe
- 🧜♂️Noto
- 🧜♂️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🧜♂️ merman emoji mean?+
🧜♂️ is the merman emoji, tagged creature, fairytale and folklore. Santa, angels, and the 2017 batch of fantasy figures - 🧙, 🧚, 🧛, 🧜, 🧝, 🧞, 🧟 - which Unicode added as a set with man, woman and neutral variants. They get used for Halloween and tabletop games, but also metaphorically: 🧚 for something whimsical, 🧟 for how you feel before coffee, 🦸 for anyone who did you a favor.
What is the Unicode code for 🧜♂️?+
merman is U+1F9DC U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🧜‍♂️, in CSS \1F9DC\200D\2642\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧜♂️ emoji added?+
merman got its emoji presentation in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Fantasy in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 5.0 (2017)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧜♂️ merman.