Play Button Emoji
This emoji shows one white triangle pointing to the right, used to play/start music on a music player.
Play Button is a fully-qualified emoji, part of Unicode 0.6 , and was added to Emoji 0.6 .
This emoji is part of the Symbols and is grouped with other Av Symbol emojis. Part of the Unicode Geometric Shapes block.
Copy and paste the Play Button emoji:
- ▶️
Codes & Encoding for the Play Button Emoji
Click any code below to copy it to your clipboard.
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Codepoint
U+25B6 U+FE0F✓ Copied -
HTML (decimal)
▶️✓ Copied -
HTML (hex)
▶️✓ Copied -
CSS
\25B6\FE0F✓ Copied -
JavaScript
\u{25B6}\u{FE0F}✓ Copied -
URL-encoded
%E2%96%B6%EF%B8%8F✓ Copied -
Shortcode
:play_button:✓ Copied - Unicode block Geometric Shapes
How to Type the Play Button Emoji
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iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
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Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
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Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
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macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
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Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
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Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
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Slack Type :play_button: (autocompletes to the emoji)
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Discord Type :play_button: (autocompletes to the emoji)
Play Button Emoji on Different Platforms
How to Use the Play Button Emoji
- Press ▶️ to start the video.
- She hit ▶️ and the music began.
- The game started with a ▶️.