Butterfly

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Shortcode: :butterfly:
Unicode: U+1F98B
HTML: 🦋
CSS: \1F98B
JavaScript: "\u{1F98B}"
URL: %F0%9F%A6%8B

What 🦋 means

Change, beauty and freedom, plus the nervous flutter of "butterflies in my stomach." The picture is a butterfly with open wings.

People send it about a crush, before a big event, or after personal growth they call a transformation. Spring and garden posts use it with 🌸 and 🌼.

Facts

Butterfly 🦋 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal bug. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :butterfly:. People also look for it with words like “insect” or “pretty”.