Try Mosquito emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Mosquito emoji mean?
A mosquito, for bites, summer nights and disease awareness.
Purely a complaint. It was added for public health messaging but lives in chat as a grievance.
How to use 🦟 naturally
Complaints about a buzzing bedroom, travel health posts and itching.
Animal emoji can be literal, affectionate or symbolic. People often use them for pets and wildlife, but also for personality traits, visual themes and private nicknames.
From standard to slang
The history of 🦟
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Mosquito was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2018 at the request of public health groups, with long legs and a visible proboscis. It was encoded for malaria campaigns before anyone used it to complain about a bedroom.
- Today
How its use evolved
Complaints about a buzzing bedroom, travel health posts and itching.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🦟 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Bitten nine times in one night 🦟
Cannot sleep, something is circling 🦟
Repellent was the best purchase of the trip 🦟
When to use it
Using 🦟 clearly
Complaints about a buzzing bedroom, travel health posts and itching. It lands as mosquito emoji or bite emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the mosquito emoji
What does 🦟 mean in a text message?
A mosquito, for bites, summer nights and disease awareness. Purely a complaint. It was added for public health messaging but lives in chat as a grievance.
Is 🦟 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are mosquito emoji, bite emoji, bug emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🦟 look different on another device?
U+1F99F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the mosquito emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🦟 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the mosquito emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🦟 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🦟 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F99F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🦟 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦟 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F99F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F99F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%9F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F99F
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- mosquito emojibite emojibug emoji
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