🪰Fly Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you a 🪰, they’re using it to express annoyance or irritation, like something is bothering them. It’s often a playful way to signal that something is annoying you.
The 🪰 emoji represents a little fly.
- Unicode
- U+1FAB0
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :fly:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪰 Fly emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Fly emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the fly 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.
Fly 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 :fly:.
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+1FAB0.
How to type the 🪰 Fly emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Fly 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
Fly emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around fly 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
Who sent the fly and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🪰 means in other countries
A pest and nuisance symbol almost everywhere, except in US slang where ‘fly’ flips to mean stylish or cool.
Represents an annoyance, like ‘a fly on the wall’ or being pestered.
‘That’s fly’ is a compliment meaning cool or attractive — opposite of the pest reading.
Before you send it: Context decides the read — pair it with words if you mean the compliment, not the pest.
What 🪰 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the fly lands changes how it is taken.
🪰 vs 🦋 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Fly
Code: U+1FAB0 · added 2020
Shortcode: :fly:
Generally, when someone sends you a 🪰, they’re using it to express annoyance or irritation, like something is bothering them.
Unicode name: Butterfly
Code: U+1F98B · added 2016
Shortcode: :butterfly:
Generally, the butterfly emoji means beauty and transformation.
Where the 🪰 Fly emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 13.0, the fly has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 6.
Same character every time — U+1FAB0 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.
Fly was approved as U+1FAB0 and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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.