Play or Pause Button Emoji
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What does the Play or Pause Button emoji mean?
1
A square of blue 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?
Download the Play or Pause Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
⏯️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+23EF U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia, Github
- works in Slack
- works in Discord
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, button
Category: Symbols
Subgroup: Media controls