Try Mermaid emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Mermaid emoji mean?
A mermaid, for the sea, fantasy and mermaidcore style.
Whimsical and aesthetic. Fashion posts use it as a whole visual theme.
How to use 🧜♀️ naturally
Beach posts, fantasy themes and swimming.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 🧜♀️
- 2017
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Mermaid was first defined as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. One of the steady annual widenings of the vocabulary.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2017 as the gender-neutral merperson joined to the female sign. Unicode encodes the neutral figure first and builds the others from it, which is now standard practice for people emoji.
- Today
How its use evolved
Beach posts, fantasy themes and swimming.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🧜♀️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Hair is going in this direction all summer 🧜♀️
Swam until my legs gave up 🧜♀️
Costume party, obvious choice 🧜♀️
When to use it
Using 🧜♀️ clearly
Beach posts, fantasy themes and swimming. It lands as mermaid emoji or 🧜♀️ meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the mermaid emoji
What does 🧜♀️ mean in a text message?
A mermaid, for the sea, fantasy and mermaidcore style. Whimsical and aesthetic. Fashion posts use it as a whole visual theme.
Is 🧜♀️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are mermaid emoji, 🧜♀️ meaning, merperson emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🧜♀️ look different on another device?
U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the mermaid emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🧜♀️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the mermaid emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🧜♀️ as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🧜♀️ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🧜‍♀️ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧜‍♀️ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F9DC \200D \2640 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A7%9C%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- mermaid emoji🧜♀️ meaningmerperson emoji
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