🧜 Merperson
A merperson who may be referred to as merfolk or merpeople in plural. May be used for the display of a mermaid, mergirl, merwoman, or merman.
Merperson was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017.
🚩 New in Emoji 5.0. Limited support on some platforms.
Also Known As
- 🧜 Merboy
- 🧜 Mergirl
- 🧜 Mermaid
- 🧜 Merman
Modifiers
The Merperson emoji supports skin tone modifiers. A yellow (or other non-human) skin tone should be shown by default, unless an emoji modifier is applied.
- 🧜🏻 Merperson: Light Skin Tone
- 🧜🏼 Merperson: Medium-Light Skin Tone
- 🧜🏽 Merperson: Medium Skin Tone
- 🧜🏾 Merperson: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
- 🧜🏿 Merperson: Dark Skin Tone
Platforms without support for emoji modifiers display a missing symbol character (box with a cross, alien, or question mark in it) next to any modified emoji.