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

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

insectprettybutterfly emoji

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.

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Your device
Twitter / X (Twemoji) design
Twitter / X (Twemoji)
Google Noto Color Emoji design
Google Noto Color Emoji
OpenMoji design
OpenMoji

butterfly Emoji Details

Emoji🦋
Namebutterfly
CategoryAnimals & Nature
CodepointsU+1F98B
Shortcode:butterfly:
SourcesUnicode emoji list · codepoints.net
Emoji version3.0 (2016)

butterfly Emoji FAQ

What is the butterfly emoji Unicode codepoint?

It is U+1F98B, added in Emoji 3.0 (2016). On GitHub, Slack and Discord you can type it as :butterfly:.

What are other names for the butterfly emoji?

People also search for the butterfly emoji as insect, pretty.

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