🧈Butter Emoji
When someone uses 🧈 in a text, they’re usually just saying something is really good, creamy, or decadent. It’s a lighthearted way to compliment food or a situation.
The 🧈 emoji represents butter.
- Unicode
- U+1F9C8
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :butter:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🧈 Butter emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 1 of them.
Butter emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the butter as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Butter 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 :butter:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F9C8.
How to type the 🧈 Butter emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9C8 when there is no key at all.
Butter emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the butter as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Butter emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around butter 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
Plain food, plus the idiom “butter someone up” for flattering them to get something.
Buttering someone up means flattering them, often before asking a favor.
Straightforward ingredient, no other reading.
Before you send it: Use it freely; works as a wink when someone’s clearly angling for a favor.
What 🧈 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🧈 vs 🦋 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Butter
Code: U+1F9C8 · added 2019
Shortcode: :butter:
When someone uses 🧈 in a text, they’re usually just saying something is really good, creamy, or decadent.
Unicode name: Butterfly
Code: U+1F98B · added 2016
Shortcode: :butterfly:
Generally, the butterfly emoji means beauty and transformation.
Where the 🧈 Butter emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F9C8 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.
Butter was approved as U+1F9C8 and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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.