U+23EF Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar
U+23EF was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Technical in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as play/pause toggle.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+23EF forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “play or pause button” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arrow, pause, play, right, triangle.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ⏯️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In digital electronics, analogue electronics and entertainment, the user interface may include media controls, transport controls or player controls, to enact and change or adjust the process of video playback, audio playback, and alike. These controls are commonly depicted as widely known symbols found in a multitude of products, exemplifying what is known as dominant design.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9199 |
| UTF-8 | E2 8F AF |
| UTF-16 | 23 EF |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 23 EF |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%8F%AF |
| HTML hex reference | ⏯ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⯠|
| alias | play/pause toggle |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 6.0 (2010) | |
| BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Technical | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| Yes | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar | |
| U |