The merperson: dark skin tone emoji is your all-access pass to ocean-core energyโa mythical half-human, half-fish icon that says, โI belong to the sea, not this group chat chaos.โ Itโs perfect for beach day captions, water-sign moods, or announcing an urgent retreat to the bathtub for self-care. People drop it to flirt with siren energy, to joke about leg day (who needs legs, anyway?), or to dramatize a vibe shift from land drama to deep-sea peace. It also carries a warm nod to inclusive representationโyes, Black mermaids exist, and the internetโs been swimming about it ever since The Little Mermaid discourse made waves.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2250 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture | ![]() |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐ง๐ฟ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐ง๐ฟ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🧜 🏿 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🧜 🏿 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f9dc, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9DC, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129500, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x9C, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 9C, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 234, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDDC, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edddc, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56796, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9DC 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9DC, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129500, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9DC\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\x9c\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDDC\uD83C\uDFFF" |