Starting audio or video recording sessions
Starting audio or video recording sessions.
SymbolsAv Symbol
⏺️ Record Button Emoji
The ⏺️ Record Button emoji depicts a solid circle, commonly used for recording audio, capturing video, studio sessions, or voice memos.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Record Button
- Category
- Symbols
- Subcategory
- Av Symbol
- Unicode
- U+23FA U+FE0F
- Emoji version
- 0.7
- Unicode version
- 17.0
What Does Mean?
The ⏺️ Record Button emoji represents starting an audio or video recording session, capturing voice notes, filming in a studio, or live broadcasting.
Quick Meaning
The ⏺️ Record Button emoji depicts a solid circle, commonly used for recording audio, capturing video, studio sessions, or voice memos.
Use Cases
How People Use ⏺️
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Indicating studio recording, podcasting, or voice memos
Indicating studio recording, podcasting, or voice memos.
Signaling live camera rolling status
Signaling live camera rolling status.
Real Messages
⏺️ Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for ⏺️.
“Press record to start filming ⏺️”
“Recording a new podcast episode today ⏺️”
“Red light on, we are live and recording ⏺️”
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Lookup Data
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Official Name
Record Button
Subcategory: Av SymbolAliases & Common Names
- record
- record button
- rec
Keywords & Search Terms
- record button
- record
- rec
- audio
- video
- studio
- voice note
- capture
Developer Reference
⏺️ Emoji Codes
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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+23FA U+FE0FCode points
U+23FA U+FE0FUTF-8 bytes
0xE2 0x8F 0xBA 0xEF 0xB8 0x8FUTF-16
\u23FA\uFE0FHTML decimal entity
⏺️HTML hexadecimal entity
⏺️JavaScript escape
\u{23FA}\u{FE0F}CSS escape
\23FA \FE0F Python string
\u23FA\uFE0FUnicode Breakdown
Sequence Breakdown for ⏺️
This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.
⏺
U+23FARecord Button
+
VS16
U+FE0FVariation Selector-16 (Emoji Presentation)
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
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FAQ
Questions About ⏺️
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The ⏺️ Record Button emoji depicts a solid circle, commonly used for recording audio, capturing video, studio sessions, or voice memos.
Yes. When licensed artwork is available, choose a style and download 1× (128×128), 2× (256×256), 4× (512×512), or 8× (1024×1024) PNG artwork. EmojiMint shows the selected provider, background, and exact pixel dimensions before download.
⏺️ is a symbolic character for Record Button used in signage, formatting, alerts, and instructions.
⏺️ uses the Unicode sequence U+23FA U+FE0F. Its individual code points are U+23FA, U+FE0F.
⏺️ is usually the more general choice. ▶️ Play Button is different because plays existing content rather than recording new media.
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