U+1F9DC U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F

πŸ§œπŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Merman: light skin tone

Skin tone A click copies the symbol with the chosen tone β€” no need to open a separate page.

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Shortcode
Unicode version
10.0 (2017)
Emoji version
5.0 (2017)
Status
fully-qualified

What πŸ§œπŸ»β€β™‚οΈ is made of

This symbol is glued together from several: an invisible joiner sits between them. Software that does not know about the joiner shows the parts separately.

  1. 🧜 merperson U+1F9DC
  2. 🏻 skin tone U+1F3FB
  3. invisible joiner U+200D
  4. β™‚ male sign U+2642
  5. ️ «draw as a picture» marker U+FE0F

Hence the familiar surprise: you send one picture and the other side gets several in a row, and deleting removes the symbol piece by piece. That is not a fault but how the standard itself works.

Will your readers see πŸ§œπŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

  • Apple always there
  • Google always there
  • Microsoft always there
  • Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the πŸ§œπŸ»β€β™‚οΈ emoji is used

The πŸ§œπŸ»β€β™‚οΈ smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way β€” below you can see how merman: light skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English merman: light skin tone
Русский Ρ‚Ρ€ΠΈΡ‚ΠΎΠ½: ΠΎΡ‡Π΅Π½ΡŒ свСтлый Ρ‚ΠΎΠ½ ΠΊΠΎΠΆΠΈ
Deutsch Wassermann: helle Hautfarbe
EspaΓ±ol sirena hombre: tono de piel claro
FranΓ§ais tritonβ€―: peau claire
Polski mΔ™ΕΌczyzna syrena: karnacja jasna
Dansk havmand: lys teint
Π£ΠΊΡ€Π°Ρ—Π½ΡΡŒΠΊΠ° Ρ‡ΠΎΠ»ΠΎΠ²Ρ–ΠΊ-русалка: світлий Ρ‚ΠΎΠ½ ΡˆΠΊΡ–Ρ€ΠΈ
PortuguΓͺs sereio: pele clara

Unicode CLDR 48