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Pause button

  • stop
  • pause
  • button
U+23F8-FE0F

The pause button emoji — Unicode name “pause button” — belongs to the Symbols group on EmojiAll. You will most often meet it in messages about stop, pause and button. Scored 52 out of 100, it falls in the Neutral range.

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1. Pause button emoji attributes

Symbol
⏸️
Name
Pause button
English name
pause button
Unicode code point
U+23F8-FE0F
HTML entity
&#x23F8-FE0F;
Decimal
⏸
Category
Symbols›Audio & Video
Keywords
stop, pause, button
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Size
Background
512 × 512 PNG · transparent background

2. Pause button emoji meaning

The pause button emoji is one of the 25 symbols collected in the Audio & Video subgroup of Symbols. Its meaning centers on stop, pause and button, and that is what makes it usable across languages. It is a low-risk choice: the meaning is specific enough that readers rarely misread it.

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

3. Pause button emoji sentiment

Neutral
52 / 100

Scored 52 out of 100, this emoji sits in the Neutral range. The tone stays even, so it fits factual messages and everyday references.

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

4. Pause button emoji examples

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