🦟 Mosquito

A mosquito, a type of bloodsucking fly. Depicted as a brown or black mosquito on its six, long legs, with wings, long abdomen, and needle-like mouth. Variously shown from above or facing left.

May be used to represent various insects, other bugs and bug bites, and insect-borne diseases (e.g., malaria). May also be used for metaphorical pests.

Microsoft and Facebook’s mosquitoes have red abdomens, as filled with blood.

Mosquito was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 in 2018.