⏸

See also: | |, ǁ [U+01C1 LATIN LETTER LATERAL CLICK], ‖ [U+2016 DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE], ‖ ‖, and ∥ [U+2225 PARALLEL TO]

Text style	Emoji style
⏸︎	⏸️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
⏸ U+23F8, ⏸ DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR ← ⏷ [U+23F7] Miscellaneous Technical ⏹ → [U+23F9]

Translingual

Description

Two parallel vertical bars.

Symbol

⏸

1. The pause button, which pauses video, audio, a slide presentation etc.; also hold on a phone.

See also

• Playing: ▶, ⏸, ⏹, ⏯︎
• Navigation: ⯬, ⯮, ⏪︎, ⏩︎, ⏮, ⏭
• Playlist: 🔁︎, 🔂︎, 🔀︎
• Volume: 🔈︎, 🔇︎
• Others: ⏺, ⏏

• See ‖ for other uses of a pair of vertical lines, also called a caesura.