Butterfly Emoji 🦋
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.
| 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 |
