Butterfly emoji
🦋 is transformation, beauty and nervous excitement. Copy it here.
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What the butterfly emoji means
🦋 (butterfly, Emoji 3.0) is transformation, beauty and lightness. It is used for personal change (“new chapter 🦋”), for “butterflies” — nervous excitement, especially about someone — and as part of the blue aesthetic in captions. Its blue colouring on most platforms is why it sits in the blue emoji guide. 🐛 is the caterpillar it came from.
Unicode name: butterfly · U+1F98B · Emoji 3.0 (2016) · group: Animals & Nature.
How people use it
- Transformation: new jobs, recovery, glow-ups
- Butterflies: nervous excitement
- Aesthetic: 🦋💙✨
- Nature: gardens and spring
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| butterflyU+1F98B | Transformation, butterflies, beauty | Blue on most platforms | |
| bugU+1F41B | Caterpillar; before the change | Literal | |
| sparklesU+2728 | Sparkle | See the sparkles emoji guide | |
| cherry blossomU+1F338 | Spring | See the flower emoji guide |
Chat examples
Real messages with 🦋, and a reply that fits.
🦋 new chapter
you’ve got this
🦋 garden visitor
beautiful
butterflies 🦋 before the date
aww
Questions people ask
What does 🦋 mean from a girl or a guy?
Either an aesthetic choice or “butterflies” — nervous excitement about someone. Context decides.
Why is the butterfly blue?
Most platforms drew it as a blue morpho. It is a design choice; the character has no colour.
About this guide
Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.
