Butterfly is the Unicode character ๐Ÿฆ‹ at codepoint U+1F98B in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard โ€” or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

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UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
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How to Use Butterfly

To use the Butterfly symbol (๐Ÿฆ‹) in HTML, insert the entity 🦋 directly into your markup. The decimal entity 🦋 works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1F98B';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u{1F98B}' evaluates to ๐Ÿฆ‹. In Python source, write '\U0001F98B'.

The character encodes to F0 9F A6 8B as UTF-8 bytes and D83E DD8B as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 129419.

This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026