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Pause! Halt with the Pause Button emoji, a symbol of stopping temporarily.
Two vertical bars. The Pause Button emoji is commonly used to indicate pausing or stopping temporarily in media playback. If someone sends you a ⏸️ emoji, it likely means they are suggesting to pause, halt, or take a break.
The ⏸️ Pause Button emoji represents a temporary pause or stop, often used in digital media contexts to indicate a break in playback or activity.
Simply click on the ⏸️ emoji above to instantly copy it to your clipboard. You can then paste it anywhere - in messages, social media, documents, or any app that supports emojis.
The ⏸️ pause button emoji was introduced in Emoji E0.7 and is now supported across all major platforms including iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS.
The ⏸️ pause button emoji belongs to the Symbols category, specifically in the AV Symbols subcategory.
| Unicode Name | Double Vertical Bar |
| Apple Name | Pause Symbol |
| Also Known As | Pause |
| Unicode Hexadecimal | U+23F8 U+FE0F |
| Unicode Decimal | U+9208 U+65039 |
| Escape Sequence | \u23f8 \ufe0f |
| Group | ㊗️ Symbols |
| Subgroup | 🔊 AV Symbols |
| Proposals | L2/11-052 |
| Unicode Version | 7.0 | 2014 |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 | 2015 |
| Unicode Name | Double Vertical Bar |
| Apple Name | Pause Symbol |
| Also Known As | Pause |
| Unicode Hexadecimal | U+23F8 U+FE0F |
| Unicode Decimal | U+9208 U+65039 |
| Escape Sequence | \u23f8 \ufe0f |
| Group | ㊗️ Symbols |
| Subgroup | 🔊 AV Symbols |
| Proposals | L2/11-052 |
| Unicode Version | 7.0 | 2014 |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 | 2015 |