▶️ Play Button emoji

Copy the ▶️ Play Button emoji (2 code points), a Symbols emoji from Emoji 0.6 (2010). HTML ▶️ and CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes.

CLDR name: play button
Code points: U+25B6 U+FE0F
Type: Character plus emoji variation selector
Group: Symbols
Subgroup: Av symbol
Introduced: Emoji 0.6 (2010)
Text form: ▶ (U+25B6)
Keywords: arrow, button, play, right, triangle

About this emoji

▶️ Play Button is an emoji in the Symbols group, av symbol subgroup, first released in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the label Unicode gives to characters that became emoji with Unicode 6.0 in 2010, before emoji had version numbers of their own.

CLDR, the Unicode project that supplies emoji names in many languages, gives it the English keywords arrow, button, play, right and triangle; that is what emoji keyboards match when you search.

It is the character ▶ (U+25B6 BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE) followed by the variation selector U+FE0F, which asks for the colourful emoji style. Without the selector, many systems show a plain text symbol instead.

Codes to copy

HTML decimal	`▶️`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`▶️`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\25B6 \FE0F";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u25B6\uFE0F"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u25b6\ufe0f"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE}\N{VARIATION SELECTOR-16}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%96%B6%EF%B8%8F`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 96 B6 EF B8 8F`6 bytes in all.
UTF-16	`25B6 FE0F`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

What it is made of

Code point	Shows as	Unicode name
`U+25B6`	▶	BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE
`U+FE0F`	invisible	VARIATION SELECTOR-16

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