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⏸️ Pause button
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⏸️ Emoji meaning
Thinking break, buying time, stopping, interrupting, and waiting.
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⏸️ Meaning
I need a break! From everyday life, a stressful person, a conversation, during the workday or from a relationship. The pause button temporarily pauses a song or video. A request to briefly interrupt the current activity and listen.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Pause vs play-pause; both contain pause bars; play triangle may be missed in tiny icons.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Pause button” was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 and added to Emoji 0.7 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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+ button
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- pause button
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ pause button
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ bar + double + pause + vertical
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- vertical
