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animal-bug

Butterfly

1F98B · U+1F98B · 🦋

What it means

The Butterfly emoji 🦋 is used around ideas like butterfly, insect and pretty.

Emoji render in the viewer’s own font, so the exact drawing differs between Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft — the sense above is what stays constant.

Keywords

Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.

butterflyinsectpretty

Details

Hexa1F98B
CodepointsU+1F98B
HTML (hex)🦋
HTML (decimal)🦋
CLDR short namebutterfly
Emoji versionEmoji 3.0 · 2016 →
Qualificationfully-qualified
CategoryAnimals & Nature
Subcategoryanimal-bug

Timeline

  1. Emoji 3.0 · 2016Butterfly entered the standard as U+1F98B, establishing the codepoint still used today.
  2. TodayRendered across major platforms. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each draw it in their own style while preserving the same underlying character.

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