A butterfly, a beautiful winged insect whose larva is a caterpillar. Depicted with its wings outspread, as a blue-and-black morpho butterfly or orange-and-black monarch butterfly depending on the platform.

Given the notable design divergence between platforms, the draft Emoji 18.0 repertoire includes a distinct 🫌 Monarch Butterfly emoji. Emoji 18.0 is expected for approval in September 2026.

May also be used to represent moths, as well as ideas of beauty and happiness.

Since December 2023 this emoji has been used to reference the social media platform Bluesky, due to the platform's logo being a blue butterfly. 

Samsung’s butterfly previously resembled a monarch.

Butterfly was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.