play or pause button emoji

Play/pause combined — toggle between playing and pausing.

Unicode data

Character	⏯️
Codepoint	U+23EF U+FE0F
Unicode name	PLAY OR PAUSE BUTTON
Added in	Unicode 1.0
Category	Symbols
Subcategory	av-symbol
HTML entity	⏯
Shortcode	:black_right_pointing_triangle_with_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).