🧜🏿♂️
What 🧜🏿♂️ means
🧜🏿♂️ is the Merman emoji with the dark skin tone applied — same meaning and uses, in the tone that looks like you.
A full-body portrayal of the male variant of the mermaid, this half-human and half-fish mythical character is designed with short, mostly red hair and a trident on some platforms.
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-fantasy
- Codepoints
U+1F9DC U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 5.0
- Shortcodes
:merman_tone5:Discord:merman_dark_skin_tone:Discord- Keywords
- creature, dark skin tone, fairytale, folklore, merman, Neptune, ocean, Poseidon, sea, siren, trident, Triton
- Variant of
- 🧜♂️ merman · how tone modifiers work
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🧜🏿♂️ Merman: Dark Skin Tone or 🇹🇱 Flag: Timor-Leste?