Pause Button Emoji ⏸

U+23F8

Emoji Meaning

A pause button. It looks like an icon with two vertical parallel bars. It helps to temporarily stop the playing of the recording.

The symbol “Pause Button” is included in the “User interface symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Technical” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 7.0 in 2014. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “AV Symbol” subcategory of the “Symbols” category.

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Synonyms

Pause Button, pause.

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Unicode Name	Double Vertical Bar
Unicode Number
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Miscellaneous Technical
Unicode Subblock	User interface symbols
Unicode Version	7.0 (2014)
Emoji Version	1.0 (2015)
Emoji Category	Symbols
Emoji Subcategory	AV Symbol
Emoji Name	Pause Button

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	23F8
Simple case change	23F8
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 8F B8	226 143 184	14847928	11100010 10001111 10111000
UTF-16BE	23 F8	35 248	9208	00100011 11111000
UTF-16LE	F8 23	248 35	63523	11111000 00100011
UTF-32BE	00 00 23 F8	0 0 35 248	9208	00000000 00000000 00100011 11111000
UTF-32LE	F8 23 00 00	248 35 0 0	4163043328	11111000 00100011 00000000 00000000