⏸️ Pause Button
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Emoji Meaning
1
A blue square showing two vertical bars in the center — click or tap it to pause the media.
2
The pause symbol shows two parallel vertical lines set inside a blue square frame.
This emoji is used to indicate a break or stop and often appears in conversations about music and cinema. Figuratively, it can signal a pause in a conversation, a relationship, or at work — and you’ll recognize the same button on virtually any media player.
Also Known As
- ⏸️ Pause
Apple Name
- ⏸️ Pause Symbol
Unicode Name
- ⏸️ Double Vertical Bar
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
⏸️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+23F8 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%8F%B8%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--poh |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 8F B8 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u23F8\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u23F8\uFE0F |
| CSS | \23F8 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{23F8}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{23F8}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ⏸️ |
| HTML dec | ⏸️ |