Mosquito

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Shortcode
:mosquito:
Unicode
U+1F99F
HTML
🦟
CSS
\1F99F
JavaScript
"\u{1F99F}"
URL
%F0%9F%A6%9F

bitediseasefeverinsectmalariapestvirus

What ๐ŸฆŸ means

A mosquito. It means itchy bites, summer pests, and anything that will not stop buzzing around.

People send it from camping trips and humid evenings, or to describe an annoying person. Health groups use it in posts about malaria, dengue and other diseases that mosquitoes spread.

Facts

Mosquito ๐ŸฆŸ is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal bug. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :mosquito:. People also look for it with words like โ€œbiteโ€, โ€œdiseaseโ€, โ€œfeverโ€, or โ€œinsectโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. mosquito, Google (Noto) design from 20182018
  2. mosquito, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. mosquito, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

animals & nature ยท Emoji 11.0