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▶️ Play Button Emoji

The ▶️ Play Button emoji depicts a right-pointing solid triangle, commonly used for starting video or audio playback, media controls, or starting a stream.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Play Button
Category
Symbols
Subcategory
Av Symbol
Unicode
U+25B6 U+FE0F
Emoji version
0.6
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The ▶️ Play Button emoji is the standard media control icon for initiating audio, video, podcast, or stream playback. It is widely sent when sharing video links or starting a presentation.

Quick Meaning

The ▶️ Play Button emoji depicts a right-pointing solid triangle, commonly used for starting video or audio playback, media controls, or starting a stream.

Use Cases

How People Use ▶️

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Promoting video links, music tracks, or podcast episodes

Promoting video links, music tracks, or podcast episodes.

Representing start playback media controls

Representing start playback media controls.

Indicating starting a live stream or movie

Indicating starting a live stream or movie.

Real Messages

▶️ Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for ▶️.

“Press play to watch the trailer ▶️”

“Starting the podcast episode now ▶️”

“Click play to listen to the new single ▶️”

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Lookup Data

Names, Keywords and Search Terms

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Official Name

Play Button

Subcategory: Av Symbol

Aliases & Common Names

  • play
  • play button
  • start playback

Keywords & Search Terms

  • play button
  • play
  • start
  • video
  • music
  • media
  • stream
  • audio
Developer Reference

▶️ Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+25B6 U+FE0F
Code points
U+25B6 U+FE0F
UTF-8 bytes
0xE2 0x96 0xB6 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-16
\u25B6\uFE0F
HTML decimal entity
▶️
HTML hexadecimal entity
▶️
JavaScript escape
\u{25B6}\u{FE0F}
CSS escape
\25B6 \FE0F
Python string
\u25B6\uFE0F
Unicode Breakdown

Sequence Breakdown for ▶️

This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.

Step 1
▶
U+25B6Play Button
+
Step 2
VS16
U+FE0FVariation Selector-16 (Emoji Presentation)
Discovery

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Emoji Styles

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Microsoft Fluent

MIT License
Play Button emoji in Microsoft Fluent style

Google Noto

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

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Play Button emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Play Button emoji in OpenMoji style

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The ▶️ Play Button emoji depicts a right-pointing solid triangle, commonly used for starting video or audio playback, media controls, or starting a stream.