U+1F98B · emoji since 2016
The butterfly means transformation, beauty, and new beginnings. It lands on glow up posts, fresh starts, and anything delicate and lovely.
It also flutters for the feeling itself: butterflies in your stomach before a date or a big stage. Light, pretty, and full of meaning.
In texting, 🦋 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🦋 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Butterfly emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the butterfly emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🦋 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.