Play Or Pause Button is the Unicode character ⏯️ at codepoint U+23EF in the Miscellaneous Technical block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Play Or Pause Button
To use the Play Or Pause Button symbol (⏯️) in HTML, insert the
entity ⏯️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\23EF';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u23EF' evaluates to ⏯️. In Python source, write '\u23EF'.
The character encodes to E2 8F AF as UTF-8 bytes and 23EF as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9199.
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.