pause button emoji

Pause button — pause playback and hold.

Unicode data

Character	⏸️
Codepoint	U+23F8 U+FE0F
Unicode name	PAUSE BUTTON
Added in	Unicode 0.7
Category	Symbols
Subcategory	av-symbol
HTML entity	⏸
Shortcode	:double_vertical_bar:

Platform support

Apple / iOS✓ Supported

Google / Android✓ Supported

Twitter / X (Twemoji)✓ Supported

Platform designs vary — the same codepoint renders differently on iOS, Android, and web. Twemoji is the open-source reference used on this site (CC BY 4.0).