What does 🦋 Butterfly mean?
A colourful butterfly with open wings, often blue. It represents transformation, freedom and beauty, so it is used for glow-ups, personal growth and new chapters. “Butterflies in my stomach” describes nervous excitement, especially around a crush. A social butterfly is someone who loves mingling. For the orange species, there is the newer monarch butterfly.
🦋 Butterfly is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category (bugs & insects), added in Emoji 3.0 in 2016. People use it in messages about insect and pretty.
Example messages
🦋 Butterfly on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Butterfly looks on each platform.
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Butterfly emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Butterfly emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🦋 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :butterfly:.
When was the Butterfly emoji added?
🦋 Butterfly was added in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🦋 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Butterfly. The underlying code (U+1F98B) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.