⏸️ Pause Button Emoji

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Google (Noto Color Emoji 16.0)
Google

Noto Color Emoji 16.0

⏸️ Related Emojis

The ⏸️ emoji is often associated with the following emojis:

🎸📱📻📼🎧🎵👩‍🎤📀👨‍🎤💿🎶

⏸️ Meaning and Usage

The pause button emoji ⏸️ features two vertical bars resembling a double vertical line. This emoji represents a need to halt or take a break. Use it to signify pausing a conversation, action, or activity.


Emoji name: pause button

Tags: bar | button | double | pause | vertical


⏸️ Chat Examples

  • Let's pause the meeting for a moment ⏸️ 📝
  • I need a break, hitting the pause button now ⏸️ 😴
  • Can we pause our movie and get some snacks? ⏸️ 🎬
  • It's time to take a breather, let's pause ⏸️ 🌿
  • Let's pause this discussion and resume tomorrow ⏸️ 💬

⏸️ Images

Check out how the emoji appears on different devices and platforms:

Google

Noto Color Emoji 16.0

Google (Noto Color Emoji 16.0)

Microsoft

Fluent Emoji - Color

Microsoft - Fluent Emoji (Color)

Microsoft

Fluent Emoji - Flat

Microsoft - Fluent Emoji (Flat)

OpenMoji

OpenMoji 15.1

OpenMoji 15.1

Twitter / X

Twemoji 14.0

Twitter / X (Twemoji 14.0)

Google

Noto Emoji 16.0

Google (Noto Emoji 16.0)

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⏸️ Emoji Support and Compatibility

Google

Android 6.0.1

Microsoft

Windows 10

(First Release)

⏸️ Image History

Google

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean:

Android 4.4 KitKat:

Android 5.1 Lollipop:

Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow:

Android 7.1.1 Nougat:

Android 8.0 Oreo:

Android 9.0 Pie:

Android 10.0:

Android 11.0:

Android 12L:


Noto Color Emoji 15.0:

Noto Color Emoji 15.1:

Noto Color Emoji 16.0:


Noto Emoji 15.1:

Noto Emoji 16.0:

Microsoft

Mozilla

FxEmojis 1.7.9:

OpenMoji

Twitter / X

⏸️ Word Associations with the "Pause Button" Emoji

The ⏸️ is often associated with: playback pause, video pause, stop playback, press pause, take a break, media control, media pause, halt and temporary stop .

⏸️ Pause Button Emoji In Most Popular Languages

Discover the name of this emoji in various languages:

LanguageEmoji Name
Arabicزر إيقاف مؤقت
Chinese暂停按钮
Chinese (Traditional)暫停
Frenchbouton pause
GermanPause
Hindiपॉज़ बटन
Italianpulsante pausa
Japanese一時停止ボタン
Korean일시 정지 버튼
Portuguesebotão pausar
Spanishpausa
Turkishduraklatma düğmesi
Source: Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) v46

Complete List of ⏸️ Translations

LanguageEmoji Name
A
Afrikaansonderbreekknoppie
Albanianbutoni i pauzës
Amharicላፍታ ግታ አዝራር
Arabicزر إيقاف مؤقت
Armenianդադարի կոճակ
Assameseবিৰতি বুটাম
Azerbaijanifasilə et düyməsi
B
Banglaবিরতি বোতাম
Basquepausatzeko botoia
Belarusianкнопка «прыпыніць»
Bosniandugme pauziraj
Bulgarianбутон за пауза
Burmeseဆိုင်းငံ့ရန် ခလုတ်
C
Cantonese (Simplified)暂停按钮
Catalanbotó de pausa
CherokeeᎦᎾᎯᏍᏙᏗ ᎦᏗ
Chinese暂停按钮
Chinese (Traditional)暫停
Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR China)暫停按鈕
Croatiantipka za pauzu
Czechtlačítko pozastavení
D
Danishpauseknap
Dutchpauzeknop
E
Englishpause button
Estonianpausinupp
F
Faroesepausaknappur
Filipinobutton na i-pause
Finnishpysäytä
Frenchbouton pause
G
Galicianbotón de pausa
Georgianპაუზის ღილაკი
GermanPause
Greekκουμπί παύσης
Gujaratiથોભાવો બટન
H
Hausamaɓallin dakatar da
Hebrewלחצן השהייה
Hindiपॉज़ बटन
Hungarianszüneteltetés gomb
I
Icelandicpásutakki
Igboọdụmbi cheretụ
Indonesiantombol jeda
Irishcnaipe sosa
Italianpulsante pausa
J
Japanese一時停止ボタン
Javanesetombol mandheg
K
Kalaallisutpauseknap
Kannadaವಿರಾಮ ಬಟನ್
Kazakhкідірту түймесі
Khmerប៊ូតុងផ្អាក
Kinyarwandabuto yo guhagarika gato
Konkaniथारावणी बटण
Korean일시 정지 버튼
Kyrgyzтындыруу баскычы
L
Laoປຸ່ມຢຸດໄວ້
Latvianpoga Pauze
Lithuanianpristabdyti
LuxembourgishPausknäppchen
M
Macedonianкопче за пауза
Malaybutang jeda
Malayalamതാൽക്കാലികമായി നിർത്തുക ബട്ടൺ
Maltesebuttuna issospendi
Māoripātene taihoa
Marathiविराम द्या बटण
Mongolianтүр зогсоох товчлуур
N
Nepaliपज बटन
Nigerian PidginStọ́p-smọl Bọ́tin
Norwegian Bokmålpause-knapp
Norwegian Nynorskpause-knapp
O
Odiaବିରାମ ବଟନ୍‌
P
Pashto / Pushtoد وقفې بټن
Persianدکمهٔ مکث
Polishpauza
Portuguesebotão pausar
Portuguese (Portugal)botão de pausa
Punjabiਰੋਕਣ ਲਈ ਬਟਨ
Q
Quechuasamay ñitina
R
Romanianbuton de suspendare
Russianпауза
S
Scottish Gaelicputan “Cuir na stad”
Serbian (Cyrillic)дугме за паузу
Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia & Herzegovina)дугме за паузу
Serbian (Latin)dugme za pauzu
Serbian (Latin, Bosnia & Herzegovina)dugme za pauzu
Sindhiساڪت ڪرڻ جو بٽڻ
Sinhalaවිරාම බොත්තම
Slovaktlačidlo pozastavenia
Sloveniangumb za zaustavitev
Somalibadhanka hakinta
Spanishpausa
Spanish (Latin American Spanish)pausa
Spanish (Mexican Spanish)pausa
Spanish (United States)botón pausa
Swahilikitufe cha kusitisha
Swedishpausknapp
T
TajikТугмаи "Таваққуф"
Tamilஇடை நிறுத்து பட்டன்
Teluguపాజ్ బటన్
Thaiปุ่มหยุุดชั่วคราว
Tonganmeʻalolomi tatali
Turkishduraklatma düğmesi
Turkmensägindir düwmesi
U
Ukrainianкнопка паузи
Urduوقفہ ڈالنے کا بٹن
Uyghur / Uighurتورمۇزلاش كۇنۇپكىسى
Uzbekpauza tugmasi
V
Vietnamesenút tạm dừng
W
Welshbotwm saib
Wolofbitoŋu taxawal
X
Xhosaiqhosha lokunqumamisa
Y
Yorubabọ́tínì ìdánudúró fúngbà díẹ̀
Z
Zuluinkinobho yokuphumuza
Source: Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) v46

⏸️ Emoji Codes for Developers

Shortcode (Discord):pause_button:
Shortcode (GitHub):pause_button:
Shortcode (Slack):double_vertical_bar:
HTML Dec⏸️
HTML Hex⏸️
CSS\23F8 \FE0F
C, C++ & Python\u23F8\uFE0F
Java, JavaScript & JSON\u23F8\uFE0F
Perl\x{23F8}\x{FE0F}
PHP & Ruby\u{23F8}\u{FE0F}
Punycodexn--poh
URL Escape Code%E2%8F%B8%EF%B8%8F

⏸️ Unicode Data

Unicode Code Point(s)
  • ⏸: U+23F8
  • Variation Selector-16: U+FE0F
Unicode VersionUnicode 7.0
Emoji VersionEmoji 1.0
Proposals

L2/11‑052

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