People & Body · Emoji 5.0
🧜Merperson Emoji
Generally, the 🧜 emoji just means “mermaid” or “merperson.” It's used to represent anything related to the sea and those mythical creatures.
The 🧜 emoji represents a merperson – a mythical creature that’s part human and part fish.
- Unicode
- U+1F9DC
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :merperson:
- Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧜 Merperson emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
02 — Platforms
Merperson emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9DC. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Merperson emoji skin tones
🧜 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Merperson emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :merperson:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9DC.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧜 Merperson emoji
No picker to hand? The merperson can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Merperson emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the merperson as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
07 — Combinations
Merperson emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around merperson for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🧜 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Around the world
What 🧜 means in other countries
Reads as generic fantasy almost everywhere, though water-deity folklore tied to similar imagery is taken seriously in parts of Africa and the Caribbean.
Water spirits in this vein are part of active spiritual belief systems.
Generic magical-creature tag with no deeper meaning attached.
Playful caption for snorkeling, beach trips, or general love of the ocean.
Before you send it: Use it freely for fantasy or vacation posts; it's a different register in African spiritual contexts.
10 — Apps
What 🧜 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
12 — History
Where the 🧜 Merperson emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the merperson to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F9DC never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Merperson was approved as U+1F9DC and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🧜 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ