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▶️ Play button

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▶️ Emoji meaning

Roll film! Begin, activate, execute, play, and continue.

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▶️ Meaning

Here we go! Play symbol: The button starts a song or video. Someone is watching a movie and doesn't want to be disturbed.

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Play button

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Fast-forward button

Play button vs fast-forward button; both triangular right-pointing symbols for media playback.

Same Shape

Play button

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Play or pause button

Play-pause vs play; both primarily used to start/resume playback.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Play button” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ button

Keywords removed

- play button

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ play button

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ arrow + play + right + triangle

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