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⏸️ Pause Button
- Emoji
- ⏸️
- Unicode
- U+23F8
- Shortcode
- :pause_button:
- HTML code
- ⏸
- Approved in
- Unicode 7.0 (2014)
- Category
- Symbols
What does the ⏸️ emoji mean?
The ⏸️ emoji (pause button) is a symbol from the audio & video symbols group. It's used to point, organize or highlight information, and is associated with bar, button, double and pause.
Keywords: bar, button, double, pause, vertical.
How ⏸️ looks on each platform
Every company draws its own version of the same emoji.
Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp designs are copyrighted by each company, so we don't publish them as images. Open this page on an iPhone and the “Your device” box shows Apple's version; on a Samsung Galaxy, Samsung's.
How to type ⏸️ on your keyboard
| iPhone | Open the keyboard, tap the emoji button 😀 and type “pause button” in “Search Emoji”. |
|---|---|
| Android | On Gboard or the Samsung keyboard, tap the emoji icon and search “pause button”. |
| Windows | Press Windows + . (period) and type “pause button”. |
| Mac | Press Control + Command + Space and search “pause button”. |
| Discord, Slack, GitHub | Type :pause_button: |
⏸️ emoji codes
| Official Unicode name | pause button |
|---|---|
| Code points | U+23F8 |
| HTML decimal | ⏸ |
| HTML hex | ⏸ |
| CSS | \23F8 |
| JavaScript | \u{23F8} |
| Shortcode | :pause_button: |
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What does the ⏸️ emoji mean?
The ⏸️ emoji (pause button) is a symbol from the audio & video symbols group. It's used to point, organize or highlight information, and is associated with bar, button, double and pause.
How do I copy and paste the pause button emoji?
Tap Copy emoji on this page and paste it anywhere: WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, an email or a document. You can also find it on your phone's emoji keyboard by searching “pause button”.
When was the ⏸️ emoji released?
It was approved in Unicode 7.0, in 2014. Today it works on practically every phone and computer.