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⏺️Record Button Emoji

The record button emoji ⏺️ carries the codepoint U+23FA U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 7.0 (2014). It belongs to Symbols → Audio & Video Symbols.

What ⏺️ record button means

Playback controls used literally and as metaphors alike: ⏸️ for pausing a plan, ⏭️ for skipping ahead, 🔁 for something happening all over again. 📶 signals reception or, by extension, being unreachable. Several of these are text-default characters that need the variation selector U+FE0F after them to appear in colour, which is why they sometimes render as plain black outlines.

Unicode tags this one button, circle and record and files it under Symbols → Audio & Video Symbols.

Copy variants

record button carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How ⏺️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

⏺U+23FArecord button
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+23FA U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`⏺️`
HTML decimal	`⏺️`
CSS	`\23FA\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{23FA}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U000023FA\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u23FA\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{23fa}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{23FA}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{23FA}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%8F%BA%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 8F BA EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`23FA FE0F`
Base64	`4o+677iP`
Decimal	`9210 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Keywords

button
circle
record

Appears in these collections

How to type ⏺️

Windows — press Win + . and search “record button”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “button”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 23fa and Enter.
HTML — paste ⏺️.

How ⏺️ renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

⏺️Apple
⏺️Segoe
⏺️Noto
⏺️System

Frequently asked questions

What does the ⏺️ record button emoji mean?+

⏺️ is the record button emoji, tagged button, circle and record. Playback controls used literally and as metaphors alike: ⏸️ for pausing a plan, ⏭️ for skipping ahead, 🔁 for something happening all over again. 📶 signals reception or, by extension, being unreachable. Several of these are text-default characters that need the variation selector U+FE0F after them to appear in colour, which is why they sometimes render as plain black outlines.

What is the Unicode code for ⏺️?+

record button is U+23FA U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⏺️, in CSS \23FA\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{23FA}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ⏺️ emoji added?+

record button got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⏺️ record button.