U+1F98B
🦋 Butterfly
- Category
- Animals & Nature
- Subcategory
- Bugs & Insects
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 9.0 (2016)
- Emoji version
- 3.0 (2016)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the 🦋 emoji means
A blue butterfly with open wings. The insect, and the old idea of a change that turns out well.
Common in posts about starting over, and as decoration where the shape matters more than the meaning. Also stands for nerves — the ones in the stomach.
Chat examples
Will your readers see 🦋
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 🦋 emoji is used
The 🦋 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how butterfly is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 🦋 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | butterfly |
|---|---|
| Русский | бабочка |
| Deutsch | Schmetterling |
| Español | mariposa |
| Français | papillon |
| Polski | motyl |
| Dansk | sommerfugl |
| Українська | метелик |
| Português | borboleta |
Unicode CLDR 48