mermaid

A mythical sea creature with a human upper body and a fish tail, typically shown as female with long flowing hair

Code points: U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
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Meaning

A mythical sea creature with a human upper body and a fish tail, typically shown as female with long flowing hair. It commonly represents mermaids, ocean themes, fantasy, and folklore, and can convey a love of the sea, swimming, or fairy-tale imagery. It is often used playfully for someone who loves water or appears in nautical and fantasy contexts. It can also evoke beauty, mystery, or enchantment. Usage varies, and it may occasionally stand in for a generic sea or fantasy motif rather than a literal mermaid.

Mermaid — Approved as part of Emoji 5.0 in 2017.

creature fairytale folklore mermaid merwoman ocean

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Emoji names around the world

English: mermaidالعربية حورية بحر español sirena português sereia हिन्दी मत्स्यकन्या Indonesia putri duyung

Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.

Quick facts

Code points: U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
Unicode name: mermaid
Category: People & BodyFantasy people
Unicode: 10.0 · 2017Emoji 5.0
Keywords: creature fairytale folklore mermaid merwoman ocean sea siren trident emoji meaning mean

Developer

ZWJ sequenceemoji presentation requested via VS16 (U+FE0F)

Unicode data

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

Unicode namemermaid

UTF-8F0 9F A7 9C E2 80 8D E2 99 80 EF B8 8F

Shortcodes

Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack):mermaid:

HTML & CSS

HTML (hex)🧜‍♀️

HTML (decimal)🧜‍♀️

CSS\1F9DC \200D \2640 \FE0F

Languages

JavaScript\u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}

Python\U0001F9DC\u200D\u2640\uFE0F

Perl\x{1F9DC}\x{200D}\x{2640}\x{FE0F}

PHP / Ruby\u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}

Encodings

Punycodexn--1ug26vqu9r5q9h

URL escape code%F0%9F%A7%9C%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F

Frequently asked

What does 🧜‍♀️ mermaid mean?

What are the Unicode codepoints and shortcode for 🧜‍♀️ mermaid?

U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F (Unicode 10.0, 2017) · :mermaid:

Which emojis are related to 🧜‍♀️ mermaid?

👼 baby angel, 👼🏻 baby angel: light skin tone, 👼🏼 baby angel: medium-light skin tone, 👼🏽 baby angel: medium skin tone, 👼🏾 baby angel: medium-dark skin tone, 👼🏿 baby angel: dark skin tone, 🎅 Santa Claus, 🎅🏻 Santa Claus: light skin tone

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