⏯️ Play or Pause Button
Copy and paste this emoji: ⏯️
Emoji Meaning
1
A blue square featuring a white right-pointing triangle partially overlaid by two vertical bars. Click or tap the button to play or pause the media.
2
A blue square button showing a combined play/pause symbol: a white triangle for play and two vertical bars for pause.
This emoji is used literally when you want to start playback of a multimedia file or to pause it. You can also send it figuratively to let someone know you are currently listening to music.
Also Known As
- ⏯️ Play-Pause
Apple Name
- ⏯️ Play/Pause Symbol
Unicode Name
- ⏯️ Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
⏯️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+23EF U+FE0F
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%8F%AF%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--goh |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 8F AF EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u23EF\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u23EF\uFE0F |
| CSS | \23EF \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{23EF}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{23EF}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ⏯️ |
| HTML dec | ⏯️ |
Tags: arrow, pause, play, play or pause button, right, triangle
Category: Symbols
Subgroup: Media controls