⏯️ Play or Pause Button
Emoji Meaning
A play-pause icon, showing a right-pointing triangle (play) next to a double vertical bar (pause).
Play or Pause Button was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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Also Known As
- ⏯️ Play-Pause
Apple Name
⏯️ Play/Pause Symbol
Unicode Name
⏯️ Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :play_or_pause_button: (Github, Emojipedia)
- :play_pause: (Discord)
- :black_right_pointing_triangle_with_double_vertical_bar: (Slack)
See also
- ⏺️ Record Button
- ⏪ Fast Reverse Button
- ⏮️ Last Track Button
- ◀️ Reverse Button
- ⏩ Fast-Forward Button
- ⏭️ Next Track Button
- ▶️ Play Button
- ⏯️ Play or Pause Button
- ⏹️ Stop Button
- ⏫ Fast Up Button
- ⏸️ Pause Button
Browse
- ⏯️ on Instagram
- ⏯️ on Twitter
- ⏯️ on Wikipedia
- ⏯️ on Yelp
- ⏯️ on YouTube
- ⏯️ on Google Trends
- ⏯️ on Nomad List
Proposals
- Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar Emoji Proposal: L2/09-114