🧜♀️Mermaid Emoji
Generally, the mermaid emoji means “I’m feeling dreamy, magical, or connected to the ocean. ” People use it to express a sense of wonder or nostalgia.
The 🧜♀️ emoji represents a mermaid.
- Unicode
- U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :mermaid:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🧜♀️ Mermaid emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 8.
People also look for it as trident emoji, siren emoji.
Mermaid emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the mermaid as 5 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Mermaid emoji skin tones
🧜♀️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Mermaid 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 :mermaid:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the mermaid, code point U+1F9DC.
How to type the 🧜♀️ Mermaid emoji
No picker to hand? The mermaid can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Mermaid emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Mermaid emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mermaid for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🧜♀️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🧜♀️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🧜♀️ means in other countries
A fairy-tale image in most of the world, but water-spirit figures like Mami Wata carry real spiritual weight across West and Central Africa.
Mami Wata water-spirit traditions are a living part of spiritual practice, not fantasy.
Disney-style fairy-tale character, purely fictional and playful.
Casual, upbeat way to caption swimming, snorkeling, or ocean vacation photos.
Before you send it: Safe for fairy-tale or beach captions; treat water-spirit traditions with more care in West African contexts.
What 🧜♀️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9DC, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🧜♀️ Mermaid emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the mermaid to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F 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.
Mermaid was approved as U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F 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. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.