🦟 Mosquito
🦟 Emoji meaning
You're such a nuisance! Annoying, female, blood-sucking, summer.
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🦟 Meaning
You are as nerve-racking as a mosquito! There are 3600 species worldwide, around 100 of those can be found in Germany. You will meet the annoying pests mostly in the evening hours and in the proximity of water. Only the female mosquitoes bite, they need a blood meal for their egg production.
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Mosquito vs fish; on some low-res displays, small wings/fins can be confused when color palettes are similar.
Intensity Variant
Bee vs mosquito; both winged insects that bite or sting, difference is subtle at emoji scale.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Mosquito” was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 12.1 and Unicode 12.1 in 2019 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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