Play button

Your device cannot show this emoji yet. It still copies, and newer phones will show it.

Shortcode: :arrow_forward:
Shortcode: :play_button:
Unicode: U+25B6
HTML: ▶
CSS: \25B6
JavaScript: "\u{25B6}"
URL: %E2%96%B6%EF%B8%8F

What ▶️ means

A right-pointing triangle, the play control on every media player. It means start, go, or 'press play on this', and it often marks a link to a video or audio clip.

Creators put ▶️ in front of a video link or a 'new episode' post. People also use it as a plain arrow or bullet in lists and bios, and as 'let's start' before an event or project kicks off.

On some systems it shows as a flat black ▶ text symbol instead of a colored button.

Facts

Play button ▶️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under av symbol. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :arrow_forward: or :play_button:. People also look for it with words like “arrow”, “button”, “play”, or “right”.