butterfly Emoji
🦋 · U+1F98B · Emoji 3.0
What does the butterfly emoji mean?
Literally, the 🦋 emoji represents a butterfly, a type of insect known for its colorful wings and distinctive flight pattern, while figuratively it symbolizes transformation, freedom, and beauty, and is also used to express excitement, joy, or a carefree attitude, with slang uses including describing someone's crush or romantic interest as having butterflies in their stomach, indicating nervousness or anticipation. This emoji is often used to convey a sense of lightness and delicacy. In some cases, it may be used to represent a person's emotional state or a significant life change.
butterfly emoji examples
- just saw a butterfly in my garden 🦋
- I get butterflies every time I see you 🦋
How to copy the butterfly emoji
To use the butterfly emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F98B), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
Also known as
butterfly emoji on different platforms
How the butterfly emoji looks on your device and in the openly licensed sets that include it (Twitter / X (Twemoji), Google Noto Color Emoji, OpenMoji). See image credits.



butterfly Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🦋 |
| Name | butterfly |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Codepoints | U+1F98B |
| Shortcode | :butterfly: |
| Sources | Unicode emoji list · codepoints.net |
| Emoji version | 3.0 (2016) |
butterfly Emoji FAQ
It is U+1F98B, added in Emoji 3.0 (2016). On GitHub, Slack and Discord you can type it as :butterfly:.
People also search for the butterfly emoji as insect, pretty.