⏸️ Pause Button Emoji

⏸️ Copy & Paste

⏸️	Google Noto Color Emoji 15.1

⏸️ 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 | double | pause | vertical

Categories

🔀 Audio & Video Symbols

⏸️ 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 15.1

Microsoft

Fluent Emoji - Color

Microsoft

Fluent Emoji - Flat

OpenMoji

OpenMoji 15.0

Twitter / X

Twemoji 14.0

Google

Noto Emoji 16.0

Your Browser

Default Emoji

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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 Emoji 15.1: ✅

Noto Emoji 16.0: ✅

Microsoft

Fluent Emoji - 3D: ✅

Fluent Emoji - Color: ✅

Fluent Emoji - Flat: ✅

Fluent Emoji - High Contrast: ✅

Mozilla

FxEmojis 1.7.9: ❌

OpenMoji

OpenMoji 13.1: ✅

OpenMoji 14.0: ✅

Twitter / X

Twemoji 2.3: ✅

Twemoji 12.1.5: ✅

Twemoji 13.1: ✅

Twemoji 14.0: ✅

⏸️ Word Associations with the "Pause Button" Emoji

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

⏸️ Pause Button Emoji In Most Popular Languages

Discover the name of this emoji in various languages:

Language	Emoji Name
Arabic	زر إيقاف مؤقت
Chinese	暂停按钮
Chinese (Traditional)	暫停
French	bouton pause
German	Pause
Hindi	पॉज़ बटन
Italian	pulsante pausa
Japanese	一時停止ボタン
Korean	일시 정지 버튼
Portuguese	botão pausar
Spanish	pausa
Turkish	duraklatma düğmesi
Looking for more translations? Check out the ⏸️ Pause Button emoji in over 100 languages
Source: Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) v45

⏸️ 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}
Punycode	xn--poh
URL Escape Code	%E2%8F%B8%EF%B8%8F

⏸️ Unicode Data

Unicode Code Point(s)	⏸: U+23F8 Variation Selector-16: U+FE0F
Unicode Version	Unicode 7.0
Emoji Version	Emoji 1.0
Proposals	L2/11‑052