Mosquito Emoji
This emoji shows a mosquito, a form of bloodsucking fly. It has six wings and a mouth shaped like a needle. This emoji is also used to represent other insects like bugs, and insect-borne diseases such as Malaria. The abdomen of the mosquito which appears on Microsoft and Facebook is filled with blood.
Mosquito is a fully-qualified emoji, part of Unicode 11.0 , introduced in 2018, and was added to Emoji 11.0 .
This emoji is part of the Animals & Nature and is grouped with other Animal Bug emojis. Part of the Unicode Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block. Introduced in 2018.
To find this emoji, you can use the following keywords:
Copy and paste the Mosquito emoji:
- 🦟
Codes & Encoding for the Mosquito Emoji
Click any code below to copy it to your clipboard.
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Codepoint
U+1F99F✓ Copied -
HTML (decimal)
🦟✓ Copied -
HTML (hex)
🦟✓ Copied -
CSS
\1F99F✓ Copied -
JavaScript
\u{1F99F}✓ Copied -
URL-encoded
%F0%9F%A6%9F✓ Copied -
Shortcode
:mosquito:✓ Copied - Unicode block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
How to Type the Mosquito Emoji
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iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
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Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
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Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
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macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
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Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
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Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
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Slack Type :mosquito: (autocompletes to the emoji)
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Discord Type :mosquito: (autocompletes to the emoji)
Mosquito Emoji on Different Platforms
How to Use the Mosquito Emoji
- Ugh, a 🦟 bit me last night!
- Swatting at 🦟s all evening.
- Can't sleep with these 🦟 buzzing around.