Merman: Medium-dark Skin Tone
🧜🏾♂️ is the medium-dark skin tone version of 🧜♂️ Merman. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them.
Skin tones
Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.
Where person-fantasy emoji usually appear
DBEmoji editorial interpretationApplies to every emoji in this Unicode subgroup, not only this one.
- Fiction, gaming, and fantasy-themed posts
- Costume, roleplay, and seasonal content
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- CLDR short name
- merman: medium-dark skin tone
- Codepoint
- U+1F9DC U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Hex
- 1F9DC 1F3FE 200D 2642 FE0F
- Emoji version
- 5.0
- Unicode version
- 10.0
- First released
- 2017
- Unicode group
- People & Body
- Unicode subgroup
- person-fantasy
- Skin tone
- medium-dark
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRcreature · fairytale · folklore · medium-dark skin tone · merman · Neptune · ocean · Poseidon · sea · siren · trident · Triton
How it looks
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Questions people ask
- What does the 🧜🏾♂️ merman: medium-dark skin tone emoji mean?
- 🧜🏾♂️ is the medium-dark skin tone version of 🧜♂️ Merman. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🧜🏾♂️?
- U+1F9DC U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F.
- When was the 🧜🏾♂️ merman: medium-dark skin tone emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 5.0, published in 2017, alongside Unicode 10.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 🧜🏾♂️ on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “merman”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🧜🏾♂️ from this page with one click.