About Play Button
Play Button is the Unicode character ▶️ at codepoint U+25B6 in the Geometric Shapes block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
| Unicode Codepoint | |
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| UTF-8 (hex) | |
| UTF-16 (hex) | |
| HEX Entity | |
| CSS (\xxxx) | |
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How to Use Play Button
To use the Play Button symbol (▶️) in HTML, insert the
entity ▶️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\25B6';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u25B6' evaluates to ▶️. In Python source, write '\u25B6'.
The character encodes to E2 96 B6 as UTF-8 bytes and 25B6 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9654.
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.