Play Or Pause Button Emoji
This emoji shows a triangle pointing to two vertical parallel lines on the right, which allows the double function of playing or pausing the music on a music player.
Play Or Pause Button is a fully-qualified emoji, part of Unicode 1.0 , and was added to Emoji 1.0 .
This emoji is part of the Symbols and is grouped with other Av Symbol emojis. Part of the Unicode Miscellaneous Technical block. Introduced in 2015.
Copy and paste the Play Or Pause Button emoji:
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Codes & Encoding for the Play Or Pause Button Emoji
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Codepoint
U+23EF U+FE0F✓ Copied -
HTML (decimal)
⏯️✓ Copied -
HTML (hex)
⏯️✓ Copied -
CSS
\23EF\FE0F✓ Copied -
JavaScript
\u{23EF}\u{FE0F}✓ Copied -
URL-encoded
%E2%8F%AF%EF%B8%8F✓ Copied -
Shortcode
:play_or_pause_button:✓ Copied - Unicode block Miscellaneous Technical
How to Type the Play Or Pause 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_or_pause_button: (autocompletes to the emoji)
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Discord Type :play_or_pause_button: (autocompletes to the emoji)
Play Or Pause Button Emoji on Different Platforms
How to Use the Play Or Pause Button Emoji
- Hit ⏯️ to switch between play and pause during my workout.
- The video paused automatically with the ⏯️ button.
- Can you press ⏯️ so I can see the next part?