What is ▶️?

▶️ represents the Play Button symbol.

• Function: Primarily used to indicate the action of starting or playing media, such as videos or audio. It's a universally recognized symbol for initiating playback.
• Appearance: Typically an equilateral triangle pointing to the right.
• Usage: Found in a wide range of applications, including video players, music apps, streaming services, and interfaces for controlling media playback. It's also used in presentations to indicate forward progress or transitions. It can be found on various physical remote controls to start videos as well.
• Unicode: Encoded as U+25B6 BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE and U+23F5 BLACK RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE TRIANGLE. The emoji presentation is U+25B6 with the VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (U+FE0F) or U+23F5 with the VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (U+FE0F) respectively. The larger emoji (▶️) is commonly used in modern interfaces.
• Related Symbols: Similar symbols include pause (⏸️), stop (⏹️), fast forward (⏩), rewind (⏪).
• Contextual Meaning: While primarily associated with media playback, it can also denote directional movement, progression, or a call to action to "go" or "start" in non-media contexts. For example, it can be used with the meaning of 'next' in a list.

You can examine the definition of Media%20Playback for more information.