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⏹️ Stop Button Emoji

The ⏹️ Stop Button emoji depicts a solid square, commonly used for stopping video or audio playback, halting actions, or terminating processes.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Stop Button
Category
Symbols
Subcategory
Av Symbol
Unicode
U+23F9 U+FE0F
Emoji version
0.7
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The ⏹️ Stop Button emoji represents completely stopping media playback, ending a recording session, or halting a software process.

Quick Meaning

The ⏹️ Stop Button emoji depicts a solid square, commonly used for stopping video or audio playback, halting actions, or terminating processes.

Use Cases

How People Use ⏹️

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Stopping music or video media playback completely

Stopping music or video media playback completely.

Ending an active audio/video recording session

Ending an active audio/video recording session.

Terminating a running script or process

Terminating a running script or process.

Real Messages

⏹️ Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for ⏹️.

“Press stop when finished recording ⏹️”

“Halt the execution process ⏹️”

“Playback stopped ⏹️”

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Lookup Data

Names, Keywords and Search Terms

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Official Name

Stop Button

Subcategory: Av Symbol

Aliases & Common Names

  • stop
  • stop button
  • halt

Keywords & Search Terms

  • stop button
  • stop
  • halt
  • end
  • terminate
  • media
  • recording
Developer Reference

⏹️ Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+23F9 U+FE0F
Code points
U+23F9 U+FE0F
UTF-8 bytes
0xE2 0x8F 0xB9 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-16
\u23F9\uFE0F
HTML decimal entity
⏹️
HTML hexadecimal entity
⏹️
JavaScript escape
\u{23F9}\u{FE0F}
CSS escape
\23F9 \FE0F
Python string
\u23F9\uFE0F
Unicode Breakdown

Sequence Breakdown for ⏹️

This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.

Step 1
⏹
U+23F9Stop Button
+
Step 2
VS16
U+FE0FVariation Selector-16 (Emoji Presentation)
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Emoji Styles

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Microsoft Fluent

MIT License
Stop Button emoji in Microsoft Fluent style

Google Noto

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

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Stop Button emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Stop Button emoji in OpenMoji style

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FAQ

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The ⏹️ Stop Button emoji depicts a solid square, commonly used for stopping video or audio playback, halting actions, or terminating processes.