Mermaid 🧜‍♀️
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The mermaid emoji, depicting a female merperson with longer hair and a fish tail. This emoji specifically represents female merpeople (mermaids). Common usage includes 'Like a mermaid princess🧜‍♀️' 'Mermaid cosplay🧜‍♀️' or 'Like Ariel🧜‍♀️' It's a sequence combining the base merperson emoji (U+1F9DC) with the female sign (♀).

The emoji is perfect for representing iconic mermaid characters from classics to modern works like Ariel from Disney's 'The Little Mermaid,' Hans Christian Andersen's tale, Madison from 'Splash,' the mermaids in 'Peter Pan,' and Mera from 'Aquaman.' Recently, the 'mermaidcore' fashion and aesthetic trend has become popular, and the emoji is widely used as an icon expressing dreamy, ethereal feminine vibes. It frequently appears in pool and beach selfies, cosplay events, photogenic spots, mermaid cafes, and children's books and birthday party themes. Skin tone modifiers can be applied to represent mermaids of different ethnicities.