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🧜🏿 Merperson: 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 written with several code points rather than one. Here is what stands behind it, in order.
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🧜
merperson
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🏿
skin tone
U+1F3FF
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 merperson: 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 | merperson: dark skin tone |
|---|---|
| Русский | русалка: очень темный тон кожи |
| Deutsch | Wassermensch: dunkle Hautfarbe |
| Español | persona sirena: tono de piel oscuro |
| Français | créature aquatique : peau foncée |
| Polski | syrena: karnacja ciemna |
| Dansk | havvæsen: mørk teint |
| Українська | казкова водяна істота: темний тон шкіри |
| Português | pessoa sereia: pele escura |
Unicode CLDR 48
