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🧜‍♀️ Mermaid

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🧜‍♀️ Meaning

The female mythical creature lives underwater and is a mixture of female and fish body. Only a man's love can free the mermaid from her fate. Walt Disney's “Arielle“ is well-known.

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Commonly confused with

ZWJ Sequence

Mermaid

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

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Skin tones

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Mermaid” 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

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there were 2 changes.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- merwoman

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ mermaid + merwoman

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ merwoman

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