🦋Butterfly Emoji
Generally, the butterfly emoji means beauty and transformation. People use it to express feelings of wonder or appreciation for something delicate and lovely.
The 🦋 emoji represents a butterfly.
- Unicode
- U+1F98B
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :butterfly:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦋 Butterfly emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Butterfly emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the butterfly has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Butterfly emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :butterfly:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the butterfly, code point U+1F98B.
How to type the 🦋 Butterfly emoji
No picker to hand? The butterfly can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Butterfly emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Butterfly emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around butterfly for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🦋, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🦋 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🦋 means in other countries
A gentle symbol of change and beauty almost everywhere, though some Latin American folklore ties dark ones to death.
Represents transformation, beauty, or nervous excitement — ‘butterflies’.
Black or dark butterflies are sometimes folk omens of death or bad news.
Common aesthetic marker for glow-up, transformation, or self-growth content.
Before you send it: Great for compliments or growth stories; only reconsider dark-colored butterfly imagery near loss or illness.
What 🦋 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the butterfly lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🦋 Butterfly emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 3.0, the butterfly has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F98B never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Butterfly was approved as U+1F98B and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🦋 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.