butterfly 🦋 Meaning & Copy
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To use the butterfly emoji (🦋), simply click the button above. It will be automatically copied to your clipboard.
What does 🦋 butterfly Mean?
The butterfly 🦋 symbolizes transformation, beauty, and new beginnings — plus the literal "butterflies in my stomach" of a new crush. It marks glow-ups, fresh starts and gentle aesthetic content: "new chapter 🦋".
- 💡General Use: butterfly
- 📱Social Media: Instagram, TikTok, X
Cultural Meaning & Social Media Tips
A pillar of soft-girl and Y2K aesthetics, 🦋 anchors pastel bio combinations alongside ✨ and 🌸. In captions it often nods to personal growth after hardship — the caterpillar-to-butterfly arc. Blue butterfly imagery specifically ties back to the late-90s/Y2K revival trend.
How 🦋 Looks on Different Platforms
Emoji designs vary slightly between systems. Here is how the butterfly emoji is rendered on major platforms like Apple, Google, and WhatsApp.
*Images come from open-licensed emoji sets (Twemoji CC BY 4.0, Noto Apache 2.0, OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0). Apple and WhatsApp sets are proprietary and cannot be hosted; the "Your Device" card shows your own OS emoji font — on iPhone/Mac that is the Apple design. Click any card to copy the emoji.
When to Use butterfly?
Social Media
Just posted a new photo! 🦋
Messaging
Hey, check this out 🦋
Reaction
Wow, that's amazing! 🦋
Status
Feeling 🦋 today
How to Type butterfly on Keyboard?
Windows 10/11 Shortcut
- Windows Key
- . (period)
- Type "butterfly"
- Select 🦋
Mac (Macbook) Shortcut
- Control + Command + Space
- Search "butterfly"
- Select 🦋
butterfly HTML & CSS Codes
| Property | Value / Code | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Name | butterfly | |
| Unicode Code | U+1F98B | |
| HTML Entity | 🦋 | |
| HTML Hex | 🦋 | |
| CSS Content | \01F98B | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F98B} | |
| Shortcode (Discord, Slack, GitHub) | :butterfly: | |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 3.0 | |
| Year Added | 2016 | |
| Skin Tone Support | No |
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Get high-resolution PNG or vector SVG files of this emoji. Perfect for using as stickers in WhatsApp, Discord, or professional projects.
Graphics come from open-licensed sets: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0, Twitter/X), Noto Color Emoji (Apache 2.0, Google) and OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0). Free to use with attribution.
Aesthetic 🦋 Combinations
Instagram Bios with butterfly
Living my best life 🦋
Just vibes 🦋✨
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