⏸️ Pause Button
Emoji Meaning
A pause icon, displayed as two vertical bars.
Pause Button was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 under the name “Double Vertical Bar” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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Also Known As
- ⏸️ Pause
Apple Name
⏸️ Pause Symbol
Unicode Name
⏸️ Double Vertical Bar
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :pause_button: (Discord, Github, Emojipedia)
- :double_vertical_bar: (Discord, Slack)
See also
- ⏺️ Record Button
- ⏪ Fast Reverse Button
- ⏮️ Last Track Button
- ⏩ Fast-Forward Button
- ⏭️ Next Track Button
- ⏯️ Play or Pause Button
- ⏹️ Stop Button
Browse
- ⏸️ on Instagram
- ⏸️ on Twitter
- ⏸️ on Wikipedia
- ⏸️ on Yelp
- ⏸️ on YouTube
- ⏸️ on Google Trends
- ⏸️ on Nomad List
Proposals
- Double Vertical Bar Emoji Proposal: L2/11-052