Stopping music or video media playback completely
Stopping music or video media playback completely.
SymbolsAv Symbol
⏹️ 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.
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 SymbolAliases & 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+FE0FCode points
U+23F9 U+FE0FUTF-8 bytes
0xE2 0x8F 0xB9 0xEF 0xB8 0x8FUTF-16
\u23F9\uFE0FHTML decimal entity
⏹️HTML hexadecimal entity
⏹️JavaScript escape
\u{23F9}\u{FE0F}CSS escape
\23F9 \FE0F Python string
\u23F9\uFE0FUnicode Breakdown
Sequence Breakdown for ⏹️
This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.
⏹
U+23F9Stop 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 ⏹️ Stop Button emoji depicts a solid square, commonly used for stopping video or audio playback, halting actions, or terminating processes.
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 Stop Button used in signage, formatting, alerts, and instructions.
⏹️ uses the Unicode sequence U+23F9 U+FE0F. Its individual code points are U+23F9, U+FE0F.
⏹️ is usually the more general choice. ⏸️ Pause Button is different because temporarily holds playback rather than stopping it completely.
Use the copy button on this page to copy ⏹️, or select the emoji character directly and copy it from your browser.