Mermaid Emoji
What does the Mermaid emoji mean?
Here is a woman with a half-fish, half-human body, a phrase used to describe the magical, humanoid creatures that dwell in the ocean’s depths.
An emoji of the enchanting, universally recognized mermaid. The feminine variant incorporates the corresponding symbol ♀️. She appears as a yellow-faced woman with a tail instead of legs.
In folklore, these creatures are said to live in the sea and to lure sailors with their song. In messages and social posts, the mermaid emoji is often used to hint at swimming skills and a love of water.
Apple Name
- 🧜♀️ Mermaid
Unicode Name
- 🧜♀️ Mermaid
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Mermaid emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🧜♀️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A7%9C%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--e5h3312o |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A7 9C E2 80 8D E2 99 80 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDDC\u200D\u2640\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9dc\u200D\u2640\uFE0F |
| CSS | \01F9DC \200D \2640 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{1F9DC}\x{200D}\x{2640}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | 🧜‍♀️ |
| HTML dec | 🧜‍♀️ |
Tags: mermaid, merwoman, creature, fairytale, folklore, ocean, sea, siren, trident
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Fantasy characters