U+1F98B "🦋" Butterfly Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦋
U+1F98B "🦋" Butterfly is a pictorial symbol included in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block, representing the delicate, winged insect known for its vibrant colors and metamorphic life cycle. Commonly used in digital communication, this emoji conveys themes of transformation, beauty, nature, freedom, and occasional whimsy or lightheartedness, appearing across social media, messaging apps, and web content as a visual shorthand for change or elegance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F98B |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Butterfly |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🦋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🦋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F98B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd8b |