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⏹️Stop Button Emoji

⏹️ is the stop button emoji, U+23F9 U+FE0F, one of 25 in the Audio & Video Symbols set. It arrived with Unicode 7.0 (2014) and is commonly used for button, square and stop.

What ⏹️ stop 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, square and stop and files it under Symbols → Audio & Video Symbols.

Copy variants

stop 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+23F9stop button
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+23F9 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`⏹️`
HTML decimal	`⏹️`
CSS	`\23F9\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{23F9}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U000023F9\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u23F9\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{23f9}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{23F9}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{23F9}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%8F%B9%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 8F B9 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`23F9 FE0F`
Base64	`4o+577iP`
Decimal	`9209 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Keywords

button
square
stop

Appears in these collections

How to type ⏹️

Windows — press Win + . and search “stop 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 23f9 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 ⏹️ stop button emoji mean?+

⏹️ is the stop button emoji, tagged button, square and stop. 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 ⏹️?+

stop button is U+23F9 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⏹️, in CSS \23F9\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{23F9}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ⏹️ emoji added?+

stop 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 ⏹️ stop button.