⏩Fast-forward Button Emoji
Generally, it means "let's skip ahead" or “fast forward. ” People use it to suggest moving past something they find slow or unnecessary in a conversation or situation.
The ⏩ emoji is the fast forward button.
- Unicode
- U+23E9
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :fast_forward:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⏩ Fast-forward Button emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
Fast-forward Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+23E9 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your fast-forward button looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Fast-forward Button emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :fast_forward:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+23E9.
How to type the ⏩ Fast-forward Button emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+23E9 when there is no key at all.
Fast-forward Button emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the fast-forward button as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Fast-forward Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around fast-forward button for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with ⏩, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ⏩ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What ⏩ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the fast-forward button lands changes how it is taken.
⏩ vs ⏪ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Fast-forward Button
Code: U+23E9 · added 2010
Shortcode: :fast_forward:
Generally, it means "let's skip ahead" or “fast forward.
Unicode name: Fast Reverse Button
Code: U+23EA · added 2010
Shortcode: :rewind:
Generally, it means “let’s go back” or “let’s rewind.
Where the ⏩ Fast-forward Button emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+23E9 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
⏩ existed there as
KDDI au E530, SoftBank E23C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Fast-forward Button was approved as U+23E9 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ⏩ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.