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 encoded in Unicode 1.1 , and included in 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 ▶️.
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