Stop button
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- Shortcode
:stop_button:- Unicode
U+23F9- HTML
⏹- CSS
\23F9- JavaScript
"\u{23F9}"- URL
%E2%8F%B9%EF%B8%8F
What ⏹️ means
A solid square: the stop control on players and recorders. It means stop, end, or that's enough.
Compared with ⏸️ it is final: the thing is over, not resting. People use it to end a running joke, call time on a meeting, or mark a process that has stopped. For an angry 'stop', 🛑 is the more common pick.
Facts
Stop 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 :stop_button:. People also look for it with words like “button”, “square”, or “stop”.
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.