🦋U+1F98B
Butterfly emoji
Colorful, spread wings carry this butterfly through the air. It works for butterflies, beauty, spring and gardens, and the ideas of transformation and freedom, since a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.
- Unicode name
- butterfly
- Category
- Animals & nature, Bugs
- Added
- Emoji 3.0 in 2016
- Code points
- U+1F98B
- Shortcode
:butterfly:- Keywords
- butterfly, insect, pretty
How it looks
How to type 🦋
- iPhone and iPad
- Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “butterfly”.
- Android
- In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “butterfly”.
- Mac
- Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “butterfly”.
- Windows
- Press Windows + . (period) and type “butterfly”.
- GitHub
- Type :butterfly: in an issue, pull request or comment.
In other languages
| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español | mariposa | bonito, insecto, mariposa |
| Français | papillon | animal, insecte, mignon, papillon, printemps |
| Deutsch | Schmetterling | Insekt, Schmetterling, schön |
| Italiano | farfalla | ali, animale, colorata, insetto |
| Português | borboleta | beleza, borboleta, inseto |
| Nederlands | vlinder | insect, mooi, vlinder |
| Svenska | fjäril | fjäril, insekt, sommar, vacker |
| Polski | motyl | kolorowy, motyl, owad, zwierzę |
| Türkçe | kelebek | böcek, kelebek, şirin |
| Русский | бабочка | бабочка, красота, мотылек, насекомое |
| Українська | метелик | гарний, гусениця, зміна, комаха, крихкість, метаморфоза, міграція, надія, трансформація |
| Ελληνικά | πεταλούδα | έντομο, όμορφος, πεταλούδα |
| العربية | فراشة | بابيون, بستان, جمال, حشرة, طبيعة, فراشة |
| עברית | פרפר | בעל חיים, חרק, יופי, מעופף, פרפר |
| فارسی | پروانه | پروانه, حشره, زیبا, عاشق |
| हिन्दी | तितली | कीड़ा, तितली, सुंदर |
| বাংলা | প্রজাপতি | কীটপতঙ্গ, পতঙ্গ, পশুপাখি, প্রজাপতি, সুন্দর |
| Bahasa Indonesia | kupu-kupu | cantik, kupu-kupu, serangga |
| Tiếng Việt | bướm | bướm, côn trùng, đẹp |
| ไทย | ผีเสื้อ | ผีเสื้อ, แมลง, สวย |
| 日本語 | チョウ | チョウ, バタフライ, 昆虫, 虫, 蝶 |
| 한국어 | 나비 | 곤충, 나비, 날개, 이쁜 |
| 中文（简体） | 蝴蝶 | 昆虫, 漂亮, 美丽, 蝴蝶 |
| 中文（繁體） | 蝴蝶 | 昆蟲, 美, 蝴蝶 |
Names in 96 more languages
| Afrikaans | skoenlapper |
|---|---|
| Akan | afrafrantͻ |
| Albanian | flutur |
| Amharic | ቢራቢሮ |
| Anii | gʊpǝmpǝru |
| Armenian | թիթեռ |
| Assamese | পখিলা |
| Azerbaijani | kəpənək |
| Bashkir | күбәләк |
| Basque | pinpilinpauxa |
| Belarusian | матылёк |
| Bosnian | leptir |
| Breton | balafenn |
| Bulgarian | пеперуда |
| Burmese | လိပ်ပြာ |
| Cantonese | 蝴蝶 |
| Catalan | papallona |
| Cherokee | ᎤᏍᏗ ᎧᎹᎹ |
| Chuvash | лӗпӗш |
| Croatian | leptir |
| Czech | motýl |
| Danish | sommerfugl |
| Estonian | liblikas |
| Faroese | firvaldur |
| Filipino | paru-paro |
| Finnish | perhonen |
| Galician | bolboreta |
| Georgian | პეპელა |
| Gujarati | બટરફ્લાઇ |
| Hausa | malam-buɗe-mana-littafi |
| Hungarian | pillangó |
| Icelandic | fiðrildi |
| Igbo | mbubara |
| Irish | féileacán |
| Javanese | kupu |
| Kalaallisut | sommerfugl |
| Kannada | ಚಿಟ್ಟೆ |
| Kazakh | көбелек |
| Kazakh (Arabic) | كوبەلەك |
| Khmer | មេអំបៅ |
| Kinyarwanda | ikinyugunyugu |
| Konkani | फुलपाखरुं |
| Kyrgyz | көпөлөк |
| Kʼicheʼ | Pepe |
| Lao | ແມງກະເບື້ອ |
| Latvian | taurenis |
| Lithuanian | drugelis |
| Lower Sorbian | mjatel |
| Luxembourgish | Päiperlek |
| Macedonian | пеперутка |
| Malay | rama-rama |
| Malayalam | ചിത്രശലഭം |
| Maltese | farfett |
| Marathi | फुलपाखरू |
| Mongolian | эрвээхэй |
| Māori | pūrerehua |
| Nepali | पुतली |
| Nigerian Pidgin | Bọtaflai |
| Northern Sotho | serurubele |
| Norwegian | sommerfugl |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | sommarfugl |
| Odia | ପ୍ରଜାପତି |
| Oromo | billaacha |
| Pashto | پروانه |
| Punjabi | ਤਿਤਲੀ |
| Punjabi (Arabic) | تتلی |
| Quechua | pillpintu |
| Romanian | fluture |
| Romansh | tgiralla |
| Sardinian | mariposa |
| Scottish Gaelic | dealan-dè |
| Serbian | лептир |
| Serbian (Latin) | leptir |
| Shan | ၵၢပ်ႇမိူဝ်ႈ |
| Sindhi | پوپٽ |
| Sinhala | සමනළයා |
| Slovak | motýľ |
| Slovenian | metulj |
| Somali | balanbaalis |
| Swahili | kipepeo |
| Tajik | шапалак |
| Tamil | பட்டாம்பூச்சி |
| Telugu | సీతాకోకచిలుక |
| Tigrinya | ጽምብላሊዕ |
| Tongan | pepe |
| Tswana | serurubele |
| Turkmen | kebelek |
| Upper Sorbian | mjetelčka |
| Urdu | تتلی |
| Uyghur | كېپىنەك |
| Uzbek | kapalak |
| Welsh | pili-pala |
| Wolof | lëppaalëp |
| Xhosa | ibhabhathane |
| Yoruba | Labalaba |
| Zulu | uvemvane |
Codes
- Code points
U+1F98B- HTML
🦋- CSS
\1F98B- JavaScript, Rust, Swift
\u{1F98B}- Python
\U0001F98B- UTF-8 bytes
F0 9F A6 8B- UTF-16
D83E DD8B- URL encoded
%F0%9F%A6%8B
Questions
What does the 🦋 butterfly emoji mean?
Colorful, spread wings carry this butterfly through the air. It works for butterflies, beauty, spring and gardens, and the ideas of transformation and freedom, since a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.
How do I type the 🦋 emoji?
On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “butterfly”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :butterfly:.
When was the 🦋 emoji added?
🦋 was added in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016.
What is the Unicode code point for 🦋?
U+1F98B. In HTML you can write 🦋, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F98B}.