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⏸️ Pause Button Emoji

The ⏸️ Pause Button emoji depicts two parallel vertical bars, commonly used for pausing media playback, taking a break, or putting things on hold.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Pause Button
Category
Symbols
Subcategory
Av Symbol
Unicode
U+23F8 U+FE0F
Emoji version
0.7
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The ⏸️ Pause Button emoji represents pausing video or audio playback. Figuratively, it is also sent when taking a temporary break, holding a conversation, or pausing a project.

Quick Meaning

The ⏸️ Pause Button emoji depicts two parallel vertical bars, commonly used for pausing media playback, taking a break, or putting things on hold.

Use Cases

How People Use ⏸️

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Pausing audio or video media controls

Pausing audio or video media controls.

Indicating taking a short break from work or activities

Indicating taking a short break from work or activities.

Putting plans temporarily on hold

Putting plans temporarily on hold.

Real Messages

⏸️ Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for ⏸️.

“Hit pause on the video for a moment ⏸️”

“Taking a quick coffee break ⏸️”

“Let's pause this discussion until tomorrow ⏸️”

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Official Name

Pause Button

Subcategory: Av Symbol

Aliases & Common Names

  • pause
  • pause button
  • hold

Keywords & Search Terms

  • pause button
  • pause
  • hold
  • break
  • wait
  • media
  • audio
  • video
Developer Reference

⏸️ Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+23F8 U+FE0F
Code points
U+23F8 U+FE0F
UTF-8 bytes
0xE2 0x8F 0xB8 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-16
\u23F8\uFE0F
HTML decimal entity
⏸️
HTML hexadecimal entity
⏸️
JavaScript escape
\u{23F8}\u{FE0F}
CSS escape
\23F8 \FE0F
Python string
\u23F8\uFE0F
Unicode Breakdown

Sequence Breakdown for ⏸️

This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.

Step 1
⏸
U+23F8Pause Button
+
Step 2
VS16
U+FE0FVariation Selector-16 (Emoji Presentation)
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Microsoft Fluent

MIT License
Pause Button emoji in Microsoft Fluent style

Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Pause Button emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Pause Button emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Pause Button emoji in OpenMoji style

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The ⏸️ Pause Button emoji depicts two parallel vertical bars, commonly used for pausing media playback, taking a break, or putting things on hold.