Mosquito emoji 🦟
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F99F
What 🦟 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🦟 are bite, disease, fever, insect, malaria, pest, virus. They show what people use it for.
Search for bite or disease on your emoji keyboard and 🦟 is among the results.
You will find 🦟 among the bugs (17 emoji), part of animals & nature with 161 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🪰 🪱 🦠 🐌.
Will 🦟 show on my friend's phone?
Emoji 11.0 brought 🦟 in 2018. Most phones show it now; only devices that have not been updated for years miss it.
How to type 🦟
Search for mosquito in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🦟.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type mosquito.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type mosquito in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type mosquito.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🦟 is one code point (U+1F99F), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F99F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦟 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦟 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F99F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F99F} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%9F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 9F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦟 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the mosquito emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦟 "mosquito" and links it with bite, disease, fever, insect. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the bugs subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the mosquito emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the mosquito emoji?
Search for mosquito in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🦟.