⏬Fast Down Button Emoji
Basically, it means “lower” or “decrease. ” People use it to signal they want something to go down – volume, speed, intensity, etc.
The ⏬ emoji shows a downward-pointing arrow.
- Unicode
- U+23EC
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :arrow_double_down:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⏬ Fast Down Button emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Fast Down Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the fast down button has been drawn in 3 ways.
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 Down Button emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :arrow_double_down:.
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+23EC.
How to type the ⏬ Fast Down Button emoji
No picker to hand? The fast down button can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Fast Down Button emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the fast down 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 Down Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around fast down 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
Who sent the fast down button and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What ⏬ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+23EC, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
⏬ vs ⏩ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Fast Down Button
Code: U+23EC · added 2010
Shortcode: :arrow_double_down:
Basically, it means “lower” or “decrease.
Unicode name: Fast-forward Button
Code: U+23E9 · added 2010
Shortcode: :fast_forward:
Generally, it means "let's skip ahead" or “fast forward.
Where the ⏬ Fast Down 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+23EC 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 E544.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Fast Down Button was approved as U+23EC 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.