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Stop Button Emoji ⏹️

A solid square, the icon for stopping playback outright rather than pausing it, so a stopped track starts over from the beginning next time. That reset is the whole distinction from ⏸️ Pause Button, which picks up where it left off, and in text this one reads as a flat, final halt.

What ⏹️ means

A smaller square printed in white on top of a big blue square. The ⏹️ Stop Button emoji symbolizes "the end". It could suggest a sense of permanence as opposed to the temporary nature of ⏸️ Pause.

How and when to use it

⏹️ is pretty much the button and emoji-version of the famous 'Periodt'. It suggests finality. For instance, "I don't want to be arguing any longer about this ⏹️" or "Stop explaining yourself ⏹️ You owe no one an explanation".
Once you 'Stop' a video, a movie, a song, anything, it either means you start again from the beginning (if at all you play again) or you start from where you left off. Nonetheless, ⏹️ can be a philosophical emoji.
Some examples for the previous point - "If you end things, it would never ever be the same even if you got back together again ⏹️" or "You either start from scratch or you don't try at all ⏹️".
As suggested in the previous section, ⏹️ indicates 'permanence'. While talking about such permanently negated/negational aspects, you can use ⏹️. Like, "Put an end to your fear this instant ⏹️ You are a lot braver than you think" or "It's over for sure ⏹️".

Other Names

⏹️ Stop
⏹️ Permanent End
⏹️ Once and For All
⏹️ Done For Good
⏹️ Over
⏹️ End
⏹️ The End
⏹️ Stop Symbol
⏹️ Black Square For Stop

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › av-symbol
Codepoints: U+23F9 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :stop_button: GitHub
Keywords: button, square, stop

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.