About Pause Button
Pause Button is the Unicode character ⏸️ at codepoint U+23F8 in the Miscellaneous Technical block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Developer Notes
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| UTF-8 (hex) | |
| UTF-16 (hex) | |
| HEX Entity | |
| CSS (\xxxx) | |
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How to Use Pause Button
To use the Pause Button symbol (⏸️) in HTML, insert the
entity ⏸️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\23F8';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u23F8' evaluates to ⏸️. In Python source, write '\u23F8'.
The character encodes to E2 8F B8 as UTF-8 bytes and 23F8 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9208.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.