Fast-Forward Button Emoji
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What does the Fast-Forward Button emoji mean?
1
A square of blue displaying two white, overlapping triangles pointing to the right — click or tap to instantly fast-forward the media.
2
The fast-forward button, showing two right-pointing triangles, appears on tape recorders, turntables and most media players. It’s used to quickly advance videotapes, CDs and digital recordings.
It can literally mean skipping ahead in a movie, but more often it’s used figuratively to describe a moment you’d rather rewind.
Also Known As
- ⏩ Fast Forward
Apple Name
- ⏩ Fast Forward Symbol
Unicode Name
- ⏩ Black Right-Pointing Double Triangle
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Fast-Forward Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
⏩ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+23E9
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%8F%A9 |
| Punycode | xn--9nh |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 8F A9 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u23E9 |
| C, C++, Python | \u23E9 |
| CSS | \23E9 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{23E9} |
| Perl | \x{23E9} |
| HTML hex | ⏩ |
| HTML dec | ⏩ |
Tags: arrow, double, fast, fast-forward button, forward, button, fast-forward
Category: Symbols
Subgroup: Media controls