🧜‍♂️

Merman Emoji 🧜‍♂️

What 🧜‍♂️ means

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 🧜‍♂️ Merman emoji refers to the masculine, legendary sea creature that mostly stems from fantasy and fairytales. It signifies both human and piscine characteristics.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you just painted or created some 'aquatic' art and you're posting it on your social media feed, you can use 🧜‍♂️ in the caption.
You can use 🧜‍♂️ in your social media profile name if you're a water person.
If you're sharing a post or a tweet about your favorite aquatic anime characters, use 🧜‍♂️ in the caption.
If you're heading for a swim or a full-fledged beach vacation and you're posting pictures, videos, or tweets about it on your social media handle, then you can tag the 🧜‍♂️ emoji in the captions.
If you went snorkeling or scuba diving or you're reposting someone else's experience or you're responding to random social media posts on these sports, you can use 🧜‍♂️ in those contexts.
Although there isn't an Aquaman emoji, you can use 🧜‍♂️ in your profile name to indicate that you're a fan.

Other Names

🧜‍♂️ Mermen
🧜‍♂️ Aquatic Creature
🧜‍♂️ Male Water Creature
🧜‍♂️ Mythical Character
🧜‍♂️ Half Fish Half Man
🧜‍♂️ Marine Creature
🧜‍♂️ Male Aqua Character

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-fantasy
Codepoints: U+1F9DC U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :merman: Slack · Discord
Keywords: creature, fairytale, folklore, merman, Neptune, ocean, Poseidon, sea, siren, trident, Triton
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.