U+1F9DC "🧜" Merperson Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧜
U+1F9DC "🧜" Merperson is a versatile and inclusive emoji depicting a mythical half human half aquatic creature, designed to represent any gender, while its male and female variants are specifically coded as U+1F9DD "🧝" Merman and U+1F9DC "🧜" Merperson actually also serves as the base for the more specific gender inclusive form, and this character shows a figure with a humanoid upper body and a fish like tail instead of legs, often associated with folklore, fantasy, and themes of the ocean. Its introduction in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of the Emoji 3.0 update allowed for broader representation beyond the traditional mermaid, helping users express fantasy, fluidity of identity, or simply a love for the sea.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9DC |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Merperson |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🧜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🧜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDDC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udddc |