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Play or pause button

  • triangle
  • right
  • play
  • pause
  • button
U+23EF-FE0F

The play or pause button emoji — Unicode name “play or pause button” — belongs to the Symbols group on EmojiAll. You will most often meet it in messages about triangle, right and play. Its positivity score is 53 out of 100, which places it in the Neutral range.

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1. Play or pause button emoji attributes

Symbol
⏯️
Name
Play or pause button
English name
play or pause button
Unicode code point
U+23EF-FE0F
HTML entity
&#x23EF-FE0F;
Decimal
⏯
Category
Symbols›Audio & Video
Keywords
triangle, right, play, pause, button
Download image
Size
Background
512 × 512 PNG · transparent background

2. Play or pause button emoji meaning

The play or pause button emoji is one of the 25 symbols collected in the Audio & Video subgroup of Symbols. It is used to refer to triangle, right and play, and the picture itself makes the intention easy to read. Sent on its own it works as a quick reaction; placed inside a sentence it softens the tone.

In everyday chat, the play or pause button (⏯️) usually appears alongside words about triangle, right and play. A few words of text make the intent clearer than the symbol on its own.

3. Play or pause button emoji sentiment

Neutral
53 / 100

Scored 53 out of 100, this emoji sits in the Neutral range. It is mostly descriptive, and the feeling comes from the words around it.

A higher score means a more positive feeling; scores near 50 are neutral.

4. Play or pause button emoji examples

  • 1Reminder set for Monday ⏯️
  • 2Added to the checklist ⏯️
  • 3Volume up for this track ⏯️

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