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The play or pause button emoji ⏯️ expresses play or pause button ideas and emotions. Copy and paste it easily across platforms. It adds clarity and style to messages.



Standard codepoints, HTML entities, and technical specifications for play or pause button.
play or pause buttonplay-or-pause-button:play_or_pause_button:U+23EF U+FE0FU+23EF U+FE0F⏯️⏯️0x23ef 0xfe0f%E2%8F%AF%EF%B8%8FAlt+23effe0fUnicode 1.02015The play or pause button emoji is commonly used to express or represent play or pause button, play-or-pause-button. Copy and paste it into messages, captions, bios, or anywhere you want a quick visual symbol.
Send in chats, groups, and status updates
Add to captions, bios, and stories
Use in tweets, replies, and profile bios
Post in comments, stories, and messages
React in servers, channels, and DMs
Use in workplace messages and reactions
The ⏯️ play or pause button emoji represents the concept of "play or pause button". It belongs to the "Symbols" category and the "Av Symbol" subcategory. This emoji is commonly used to add visual accent and emotional context to online messages.
You can copy the ⏯️ emoji instantly by clicking the copy button next to the symbol on this page. Once copied to your clipboard, you can paste it (Ctrl+V or paste command) into posts, comments, documents, or messaging apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, X, and Facebook.
No, the ⏯️ play or pause button emoji does not have standard skin tone variants.
The ⏯️ emoji is rendered with distinct design styles depending on the operating system and platform. Under the "Compare Emoji Styles" section on this page, you can see how it appears on Google (Noto Emoji), Microsoft (Fluent UI Emoji), Twitter (Twemoji), and OpenMoji.
The Unicode codepoint for the ⏯️ play or pause button emoji is U+23EF U+FE0F. You can use this value to reference or embed the emoji in HTML, CSS, or code by using its HTML decimal (⏯️) or hex code.
The shortcode for the ⏯️ play or pause button emoji is <code>:play_or_pause_button:</code>. Shortcodes are supported in apps like Slack, Discord, and GitHub, where typing the shortcode automatically converts it to the emoji symbol.
The ⏯️ play or pause button emoji is supported across all major platforms including WhatsApp, Instagram, X (Twitter), Facebook, iMessage, Android Messages, Telegram, Discord, Slack, and most modern web browsers. It may render with slight visual differences across platforms.