🦟Mosquito Emoji
Basically, it means a mosquito! People use it to show they're annoyed by something, like a bug or a bothersome situation.
The 🦟 emoji is a mosquito.
- Unicode
- U+1F99F
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :mosquito:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦟 Mosquito emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as virus emoji.
Mosquito emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F99F. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Mosquito emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :mosquito:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F99F.
How to type the 🦟 Mosquito emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F99F when there is no key at all.
Mosquito emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Mosquito emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mosquito for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🦟, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🦟 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🦟 means in other countries
Reads as pure annoyance and disease risk everywhere, with no positive or ambiguous meaning attached.
Shorthand for being pestered or for literal mosquito season.
Carries a health-risk undertone tied to malaria or dengue conversations.
Before you send it: Fine for complaining about bugs or bad weather; it won’t be misread as anything else.
What 🦟 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F99F, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🦟 Mosquito emoji came from
It arrived with the 11.0 release of the standard, which dates the mosquito to 2018.
Same character every time — U+1F99F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Mosquito was approved as U+1F99F and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🦟 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.