Record button
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- Shortcode
:record_button:- Unicode
U+23FA- HTML
⏺- CSS
\23FA- JavaScript
"\u{23FA}"- URL
%E2%8F%BA%EF%B8%8F
What ⏺️ means
A solid circle: the record control. It signals that something is being recorded, filmed or streamed.
Streamers and podcasters use ⏺️ to say a session is rolling, and some people add it to mean 'on the record' or 'saving this for later'. For a 'live now' post, many people pick 🔴 instead.
Facts
Record button ⏺️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under av symbol. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :record_button:. People also look for it with words like “button”, “circle”, or “record”.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
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.