🦟 Mosquito
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Emoji Meaning
1
A mosquito, typically shown in black or brown with six legs, large wings, and a long pointed proboscis, facing left. Often used as a general symbol for insects.
2
An insect familiar to almost everyone: the mosquito, which feeds on blood. It's the one that keeps you awake at night with a subtle buzzing in your ear. Its bites are especially unpleasant, often causing long-lasting, intense itching.
This image shows a mosquito with a proboscis-needle, wings and a red body, symbolizing that it has fed on its victim's blood. If mosquitoes annoy you, let us know by using this smiley face along with the 🚫 icon.
Apple Name
- 🦟 Mosquito
Unicode Name
- 🦟 Mosquito
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🦟 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F99F
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%9F |
| Punycode | xn--vt9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 9F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDD9F |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f99f |
| CSS | \01F99F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F99F} |
| Perl | \x{1F99F} |
| HTML hex | 🦟 |
| HTML dec | 🦟 |