Official Meaning & Overview
Represents a mosquito, a blood-sucking insect. Conveys summer, disease, annoyance, itchiness. Beware!
Official Unicode CLDR Name
Mosquito
Shortcode
:mosquito:Related Meanings & Search Keywords
Mosquitopestbiteitchymosquito netdiseasefeverinsectmalariavirus
Official Names in 9 Languages
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Unicode Codepoint Breakdown
Standard single-codepoint Unicode emoji character
🦟
U+1F99FMosquito
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⚙️Technical Info
Unicode
U+1F99FHex Code
1F99FShortcodes
:mosquito:CLDRMosquito
VersionEmoji 15.0
Developer Codes
Shortcode
:mosquito:HTML Entity (Hex)
🦟HTML Entity (Dec)
🦟CSS Content
\1F99FJavaScript (ES6)
\u{1F99F}UTF-16 / JSON
\uD83E\uDD9FURL Escape
%F0%9F%A6%9FQuick Reference FAQ
What does the 🦟 Mosquito emoji mean?
Represents a mosquito, a blood-sucking insect. Conveys summer, disease, annoyance, itchiness. Beware!
What is the Unicode and HTML entity for 🦟 Mosquito?
The Unicode codepoint for 🦟 is U+1F99F, its HTML hex entity is 🦟, and its shortcode is :mosquito:. It is part of Emoji 15.0.
How do you say the 🦟 Mosquito emoji in other languages?
Official localized names include: 한국어 "모기", 日本語 "蚊", 简体中文 "蚊子", 繁體中文 "蚊子", Español "Mosquito".