What ๐ means
The shuffle button from a music player: two crossing arrows that mean 'play in random order'. Away from music it means random, mixed up, or left to chance.
People drop ๐ when they share a playlist, when they say their mood keeps switching, or when a plan gets reordered at the last minute. In work chat it can flag that a list or schedule has been rearranged. It sits well beside ๐ง and ๐ถ.
Facts
Shuffle tracks button ๐ 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 :twisted_rightwards_arrows: or :shuffle_tracks_button:. People also look for it with words like โarrowโ, โbuttonโ, โcrossedโ, or โshuffleโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
Design history
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
symbols ยท Emoji 1.0