Stop button

Emoji 1.0 · Symbols · :stop_button:

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Also known as: button, square, stop

How it looks elsewhere

⏹️ Your device
⏹︎ Typographs
stop button on Twemoji Twemoji
stop button on Noto Noto
stop button on Fluent Fluent
stop button on OpenMoji OpenMoji

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What Stop button Means

People reach for ⏹️ when they mean button, square, stop. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.

Stop button is one of the symbols emoji, alongside 🔀 🔁 🔂 ▶️ ⏩ and 19 more in the same family.

History & Platforms

Stop button was added in 2014 as part of Unicode 7.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.

Under the hood ⏹️ is the 2-code-point sequence U+23F9 U+FE0F, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :stop_button:.

How To Use ⏹️

  • Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
  • Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ⏹️🔀🔁 and copy it all at once.
  • Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :stop_button: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
  • Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.

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