A solid triangle pointing right, the near-universal icon for play on any media control. It starts a video, song, or livestream on tap, and it gets dropped into text to mean "go" more broadly too, kicking off a plan, a countdown, or whatever's happening next.
What ▶️ means
A right-facing white arrowhead printed onto a faded-blue square. The ▶️ Play Button emoji represents one of the most important keys in a music player. Apart from playing a given track, this emoji could also suggest a start; a new song or a resumed one.
How and when to use it
- While sharing personal posts on your social media handle about a new beginning or a new experience, you may add ▶️. For instance, "May this challenging but vital phase begin! ▶️" or "Can't wait to start my brand new workout routine ▶️".
- ▶️ could also have philosophical implications. Like, "How would you know what the song is about if you're so reluctant to listen to it?▶️" or "Come on. Get started! Punch down that play button in your life ▶️".
- Since ▶️ represents videos, music, general audio/video files. you can use this emoji either while posting such content or while referring to the same. For example, "Check out the latest video release! ▶️" or "If you direct your life in a music video, what would be the style? ▶️".
- You can use ▶️ while referring to video content platforms, music players, or music playing platforms, like YouTube, Spotify, etc.
Other Names
- ▶️ Play
- ▶️ Play Button Symbol
- ▶️ Right Triangle
- ▶️ Right-Pointing Triangle
- ▶️ Black Right-Pointing Triangle
- ▶️ Start Button
- ▶️ Go Button
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › av-symbol
- Codepoints
U+25B6 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:arrow_forward:GitHub- Keywords
- arrow, button, play, right, triangle
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ▶️ Play Button or 🧡 Orange Heart?