Play Button Emoji
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What does the Play Button emoji mean?
1
This blue square, marked with a white triangle pointing right, is the play button, tap or click it to start the song or video.
2
This emoji represents a play button, often shown in various colors and recognized by a single triangle pointing to the right.
It signals that it's time to get moving — to start moving or to continue after a pause or long rest. It can also literally mean someone wants to watch a movie or listen to music.
Also Known As
- ▶️ Right Triangle
Apple Name
- ▶️ Right-Pointing Triangle
Unicode Name
- ▶️ Black Right-Pointing Triangle
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Play Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
▶️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+25B6 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%96%B6%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--g1h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 96 B6 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u25B6\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u25B6\uFE0F |
| CSS | \25B6 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{25B6}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{25B6}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ▶️ |
| HTML dec | ▶️ |