Butterfly emoji 🦋
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F98B
What 🦋 means
Butterfly 🦋 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: insect, pretty.
Those words also drive emoji search: try insect or pretty on your phone to find 🦋.
On the emoji keyboard, 🦋 sits with the bugs (17 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🐛 🐜 🐝 🪲.
Will 🦋 show on my friend's phone?
Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016), 🦋 is old enough that all current phones, computers and apps show it.
How to type 🦋
To find 🦋 quickly, type butterfly into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type butterfly.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type butterfly in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type butterfly.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦋 as one code point, U+1F98B: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F98B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦋 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦋 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F98B"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F98B} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%8B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 8B |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦋 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the butterfly emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦋 "butterfly" and links it with insect, pretty. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the bugs subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the butterfly emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the butterfly emoji?
To find 🦋 quickly, type butterfly into the emoji search.