U+1F9DC U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
🧜🏾♂️ Merman: medium-dark skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- Fantasy Characters
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 10.0 (2017)
- Emoji version
- 5.0 (2017)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What 🧜🏾♂️ 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.
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🧜
merperson
U+1F9DC -
🏾
skin tone
U+1F3FE -
⛓
invisible joiner
U+200D -
♂
male sign
U+2642 -
️
«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 🧜🏾♂️
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 🧜🏾♂️ emoji is used
The 🧜🏾♂️ 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 — below you can see how merman: medium-dark skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 🧜🏾♂️ Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Skin tone · Gender
- 🧜 merperson
- 🧜🏻 merperson: light skin tone
- 🧜🏼 merperson: medium-light skin tone
- 🧜🏽 merperson: medium skin tone
- 🧜🏾 merperson: medium-dark skin tone
- 🧜🏿 merperson: dark skin tone
- 🧜♂️ merman
- 🧜🏻♂️ merman: light skin tone
- 🧜🏼♂️ merman: medium-light skin tone
- 🧜🏽♂️ merman: medium skin tone
- 🧜🏾♂️ merman: medium-dark skin tone
- 🧜🏿♂️ merman: dark skin tone
- 🧜♀️ mermaid
- 🧜🏻♀️ mermaid: light skin tone
- 🧜🏼♀️ mermaid: medium-light skin tone
- 🧜🏽♀️ mermaid: medium skin tone
- 🧜🏾♀️ mermaid: medium-dark skin tone
- 🧜🏿♀️ mermaid: dark skin tone
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | merman: medium-dark skin tone |
|---|---|
| Русский | тритон: темный тон кожи |
| Deutsch | Wassermann: mitteldunkle Hautfarbe |
| Español | sirena hombre: tono de piel oscuro medio |
| Français | triton : peau mate |
| Polski | mężczyzna syrena: karnacja średnio ciemna |
| Dansk | havmand: medium til mørk teint |
| Українська | чоловік-русалка: помірно темний тон шкіри |
| Português | sereio: pele morena escura |
Unicode CLDR 48
