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🧜 Merperson

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🧜 Emoji meaning

The sea, freedom, seduction, mystery, identity, and otherness.

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🧜 Meaning

The sea, freedom, seduction, mystery, identity, and otherness.

Examples

So enchanting! 🧜
That feels kind of magical. 🧜
Do you ever dream of the sea? 🧜

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Commonly confused with

ZWJ Sequence

Merperson

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Merperson vs merman; same merfolk concept with male or neutral presentation.

Merperson

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Merperson vs mermaid; both tail-wearing aquatic humanoids, gender detail is minor.

Variants

Skin tones

gender

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

Merman

Skin tones

gender

U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F

Mermaid

Skin tones

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Merperson” was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ creature + fairytale + folklore + ocean + sea + siren + trident

Keywords removed

- mermaid - merman - merwoman

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ merperson

In the release of Emoji 4.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ mermaid + merman + merwoman

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