Butterfly Emoji 🦋

Butterfly
U+1F98B
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Emoji Meaning

Butterfly, a wonderful flying insect that is transformed from a caterpillar. It's depicted with outspread wings as a black and blue morpho butterfly or as a black and orange monarch butterfly. The butterfly emoji may be used to talk about moths or to represent something beautiful.

The symbol “Butterfly” is included in the “Animal symbols” subblock of the “Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 9.0 in 2016. In 2016, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 3.0 and added to the “Bug” subcategory of the “Animals & Nature” category.

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Unicode Name Butterfly
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Subblock Animal symbols
Unicode Version 9.0 (2016)
Emoji Version 3.0 (2016)
Emoji Category Animals & Nature
Emoji Subcategory Bug
Emoji Name Butterfly
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 1F98B
Simple case change 1F98B
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 F0 9F A6 8B 240 159 166 139 4036994699 11110000 10011111 10100110 10001011
UTF-16BE D8 3E DD 8B 216 62 221 139 3627998603 11011000 00111110 11011101 10001011
UTF-16LE 3E D8 8B DD 62 216 139 221 1054378973 00111110 11011000 10001011 11011101
UTF-32BE 00 01 F9 8B 0 1 249 139 129419 00000000 00000001 11111001 10001011
UTF-32LE 8B F9 01 00 139 249 1 0 2348351744 10001011 11111001 00000001 00000000
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