The butterfly emoji is the internet’s shorthand for transformation, glow-ups, and that floaty feeling you get when your crush finally texts back. It flutters into captions about fresh starts, spring energy, and “butterflies in my stomach” vibes—equal parts romantic and nervous. It also pops up in soft aesthetics (think cottagecore picnics and flower-crown playlists) or as a gentle sign-off when you’re embracing your peaceful era.
Online, it doubles as a wink for personal growth—“me after one therapy session 🦋”—and as a dramatic nod to the butterfly effect when small choices spiral into chaos. People pair it with sparkles or hearts when flirting, or use it ironically to poke fun at over-the-top “new chapter” posts. Thanks to Y2K fashion, Lisa Frank nostalgia, and Mariah Carey’s Butterfly era, it carries a glam-pop memory lane, plus major tattoo inspo energy.
On iOS, it’s a vivid blue morpho-style butterfly viewed from above: bright cyan-to-indigo wings with crisp black edging, a slim black body, and tidy antennae—no face, no cartoon grin, just sleek, symmetrical elegance. The flat, top-down pose and clean vector shading make it instantly recognizable in a feed, like a tiny neon sticker saying “change is cute.”
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 125 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🦋 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🦋 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🦋 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🦋 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f98b |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F98B |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129419 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x8B |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A6 8B |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 246 213 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD8B |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd8b |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56715 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F98B |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F98B |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129419 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F98B" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa6\x8b" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD8B" |
