🧜‍♀️U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F

Mermaid emoji

Q: When was the 🧜♀️ emoji added?

🧜♀️ was added in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017.

Q: What is the Unicode code point for 🧜♀️?

U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. In HTML you can write 🧜♀️, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}.

Q: Does 🧜♀️ come in different skin tones?

Yes. It comes in five skin tones: 🧜🏻♀️ light, 🧜🏼♀️ medium-light, 🧜🏽♀️ medium, 🧜🏾♀️ medium-dark and 🧜🏿♀️ dark.

Shows a woman with a fish tail instead of legs, the legendary creature of the sea. Expect it for mermaids, fairy tales and ocean fantasy, swimming, beach and summer posts, and saying someone is at home in the water.

Unicode name: mermaid
Category: People & body, Fantasy people
Added: Emoji 5.0 in 2017
Code points: U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
Shortcode: :mermaid:
Keywords: creature, fairytale, folklore, mermaid, merwoman, ocean, sea, siren, trident

How it looks

🧜‍♀️

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Skin tones

Each skin tone has its own page with its codes. Copy one right here, or open it.

What it's made of

🧜‍♀️ is 4 code points that phones draw as one emoji:

🧜MerpersonU+1F9DC
Zero width joiner, which joins the pieces into one emojiU+200D
♀️Female signU+2640 U+FE0F
Variation selector-16, which asks for the colorful emoji styleU+FE0F

How to type 🧜‍♀️

iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “mermaid”.
Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “mermaid”.
Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “mermaid”.
Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “mermaid”.
GitHub: Type :mermaid: in an issue, pull request or comment.

In other languages

Language	Name	Keywords
Español	sirena	sirena
Français	sirène	sirène
Deutsch	Meerjungfrau	Meerjungfrau, Nixe, Wasserfrau
Italiano	sirena donna	sirena, sirena donna
Português	sereia	sereia
Nederlands	sirene	meermin, sirene
Svenska	sjöjungfru	sjöjungfru, sjörå
Polski	kobieta syrena	kobieta syrena, syrena
Türkçe	denizkızı	balık kadın, denizkızı
Русский	женщина-русалка	женщина, женщина-русалка, полурыба, русалка
Українська	русалка	жінка-русалка, русалка
Ελληνικά	γυναίκα γοργόνα	γοργόνα, γυναίκα γοργόνα
العربية	حورية بحر	حورية بحر, عروسة البحر
עברית	בת הים	בת הים, סירונית
فارسی	پری دریایی	پری دریایی, دریازن
हिन्दी	मत्स्यकन्या	मत्स्यकन्या, मत्स्यस्त्री
বাংলা	মারমেড	মারউইমেন, মারমেড
Bahasa Indonesia	putri duyung	putri duyung, wanita duyung
Tiếng Việt	nàng tiên cá	công chúa cá, nàng tiên cá
ไทย	เงือก	เงือก
日本語	マーメイド	マーメイド, 人魚, 女, 女性
한국어	여자 인어	동화, 민속, 바다 생물, 삼지창, 세이렌, 심해, 여자 인어, 인어, 해저
中文（简体）	美人鱼	女人鱼, 美人鱼
中文（繁體）	美人魚	美人魚

Names in 94 more languages

Afrikaans	meermin
Akan	Mɛɛmeede
Albanian	grua sirenë
Amharic	ሴት ግማሽ ሰው ግማሽ ዓሳ
Armenian	ջրահարս
Assamese	মৎস্যকন্যা
Azerbaijani	su pərisi
Bashkir	һыу ҡыҙы
Basque	lamina
Belarusian	русалка
Bosnian	žena sirena
Breton	morganez
Bulgarian	русалка
Burmese	ရေသူမ
Cantonese	美人魚
Cantonese (Simplified)	美人鱼
Catalan	sirena
Cherokee	ᎠᎨᏯ ᎠᏣᏗ ᎤᎬᎭᏟ
Chuvash	вутӑш хӗрарӑм
Croatian	sirena
Czech	mořská panna
Danish	havfrue
Estonian	merineitsi
Faroese	havfrúgv
Filipino	sirena
Finnish	merenneito
Galician	serea de sexo feminino
Georgian	ქალთევზა
Gujarati	મરમેઈડ
Hausa	aljanar ruwa
Hungarian	sellőlány
Icelandic	hafmeyja
Igbo	mamịwọta
Irish	murúch
Javanese	duyung wadon
Kannada	ಮತ್ಸ್ಯ ಕನ್ಯೆ
Kazakh	су перісі
Kazakh (Arabic)	سۋ پەرىسى
Khmer	នាងមច្ឆា
Kinyarwanda	makobwasamaki
Konkani	मत्स्यकन्या
Kyrgyz	русалка
Kʼicheʼ	mekar
Lao	ນາງເງືອກ
Latvian	nāra
Lithuanian	undinėlė
Lower Sorbian	mórska kněžna
Luxembourgish	Mierjongfra
Macedonian	сирена
Malay	ikan duyung
Malayalam	മത്സ്യകന്യക
Maltese	serena
Marathi	जलपरी
Mongolian	лусын дагина
Māori	hine-ika
Nepali	जलपरी
Nigerian Pidgin	Wúmán Mamíwọtá
Northern Sotho	sephedi sa ka meetseng
Norwegian	havfrue
Odia	ମତ୍ସାଗଂନା
Oromo	dubartii lootu
Pashto	مرمیډ
Punjabi	ਜਲਪਰੀ
Punjabi (Arabic)	ماہی زن
Quechua	sirena
Romanian	sirenă
Romansh	sirena
Scottish Gaelic	maighdeann-mhara
Serbian	сирена
Serbian (Latin)	sirena
Shan	ၵူၼ်းၶိုင်ႈပႃၶိုင်ႈတူဝ်မႄႈ
Sindhi	جل پري
Sinhala	දියකිඳුරා
Slovak	morská panna
Slovenian	morska deklica
Somali	gabreey-maanyo
Swahili	nguva
Tajik	парии обӣ
Tamil	கடல்கன்னி
Telugu	జలకన్య
Tigrinya	ሰብይቲ ዓሳ
Tongan	fefine meimeite
Tswana	modiri wa mosadi wa tlhamane
Turkmen	suw gyzy
Upper Sorbian	mórska knježna
Urdu	جل پری
Uyghur	بېلىق قىز
Uzbek	ayol suv parisi
Welsh	môr-forwyn
Wolof	sireen
Xhosa	intombi-ntlanzi yasentsomini
Yoruba	iyemọja
Yoruba (Benin)	iyemɔja
Zulu	i-mermaid

Codes

Code points: U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
HTML: 🧜‍♀️
CSS: \1F9DC\200D\2640\FE0F
JavaScript, Rust, Swift: \u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}
Python: \U0001F9DC\u200D\u2640\uFE0F
UTF-8 bytes: F0 9F A7 9C E2 80 8D E2 99 80 EF B8 8F
UTF-16: D83E DDDC 200D 2640 FE0F
URL encoded: %F0%9F%A7%9C%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F

Questions

What does the 🧜‍♀️ mermaid emoji mean?

How do I type the 🧜‍♀️ emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “mermaid”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :mermaid:.

When was the 🧜‍♀️ emoji added?

🧜‍♀️ was added in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017.

What is the Unicode code point for 🧜‍♀️?

U+1F9DC U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. In HTML you can write 🧜‍♀️, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F9DC}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}.

Does 🧜‍♀️ come in different skin tones?

Yes. It comes in five skin tones: 🧜🏻‍♀️ light, 🧜🏼‍♀️ medium-light, 🧜🏽‍♀️ medium, 🧜🏾‍♀️ medium-dark and 🧜🏿‍♀️ dark.