Play or pause button
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- Shortcode
:play_or_pause_button:- Unicode
U+23EF- HTML
⏯- CSS
\23EF- JavaScript
"\u{23EF}"- URL
%E2%8F%AF%EF%B8%8F
What ⏯️ means
A combined play-and-pause symbol, the toggle key found on keyboards and remotes. It stands for stopping and starting, or for something that is on hold for now.
People reach for ⏯️ when a project or relationship keeps stalling and resuming, or to say a conversation will pick up later. It reads as a bit more technical than a plain ▶️ or ⏸️.
Facts
Play or pause button ⏯️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under av symbol. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :play_or_pause_button:. People also look for it with words like “arrow”, “button”, “pause”, or “play”.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.