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Play Or Pause Button
23EF FE0F · U+23EF U+FE0F · ⏯️
What it means
The Play Or Pause Button emoji ⏯️ is used around ideas like arrow, button, pause, play and right.
Emoji render in the viewer’s own font, so the exact drawing differs between Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft — the sense above is what stays constant.
Tags
All tags →Curated themes for discovery, edited by hand.
Keywords
Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.
Details
| Hexa | 23EF FE0F |
|---|---|
| Codepoints | U+23EF U+FE0F |
| HTML (hex) | ⏯️ |
| HTML (decimal) | ⏯️ |
| CLDR short name | play or pause button |
| Emoji version | Emoji 1.0 · 2015 → |
| Qualification | fully-qualified |
| Category | Symbols |
| Subcategory | av-symbol |
Timeline
- Emoji 1.0 · 2015Play Or Pause Button entered the standard as U+23EF U+FE0F, establishing the codepoint still used today.
- TodayRendered across major platforms. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each draw it in their own style while preserving the same underlying character.
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