A triangle-shaped arrow, pointing right. Commonly used as a symbol for play and used in media players to start or resume playback of audio or video.

Typically depicted as a white triangle on a blue or gray square background, though Google and Samsung's designs have an orange background.

See the glossary for information on the term black in unicode character names.

Play Button was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 under the name "Black Right-Pointing Triangle" and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.