Butterfly represents transformation, beauty, freedom and "butterflies in the stomach" when you are nervous or in love. 🦋 Butterfly is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F98B and it was released in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🦋 Butterfly mean?
Butterfly represents transformation, beauty, freedom and "butterflies in the stomach" when you are nervous or in love.
The 🦋 Butterfly emoji belongs to the bugs group of the Animals & Nature category. People often use it in messages about insect and pretty. Butterfly has been available since Emoji 3.0 (2016), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :butterfly: to insert it.
Butterfly emoji codes
| Emoji | 🦋 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F98B |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🦋 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🦋 |
| CSS | \1F98B |
| JavaScript | \u{1F98B} |
| Python | \U0001F98B |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%8B |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 8B |
| Shortcode | :butterfly: |
How to type 🦋 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “butterfly”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “butterfly”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “butterfly”.
- HTML: write
🦋in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Butterfly keywords
- insect
- pretty
Frequently asked questions
What does 🦋 mean?
Butterfly represents transformation, beauty, freedom and "butterflies in the stomach" when you are nervous or in love.
How do I copy and paste the Butterfly emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🦋 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🦋 Butterfly added to Unicode?
Butterfly was released as part of Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
Related Bugs emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.