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Keyboard symbol · A triangle on a bar

⏏ Eject key symbol

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⏏ is the Eject key found on older Apple keyboards: it ejects a CD or DVD from the Mac’s optical drive. The same triangle on a bar marks eject buttons on other devices too.

The symbol
⏏
Name on a Mac
Eject (Media Eject)
Name on a Windows PC
No equivalent stated
Unicode
U+23CF EJECT SYMBOL
In HTML
⏏
Where the key is
Top-right corner of older Apple keyboards. Current Apple keyboards have a power button or Touch ID there instead.

What Apple says

  • Eject (⏏) or F12 or mouse button or trackpad button Eject removable media, such as an optical disc. Apple Support, Mac startup key combinations, Key combinations for an Intel-based Mac
  • Command-E Eject the selected disk or volume. Apple Support, Mac keyboard shortcuts, Command-E, Finder and system shortcuts

On a Windows PC

Neither Apple’s table of Windows keys on a Mac nor Microsoft’s list of Windows shortcuts names an Eject key.

The character: U+23CF EJECT SYMBOL

To type or paste it anywhere, copy this: ⏏. It is U+23CF in Unicode, named EJECT SYMBOL, shown in the code chart Unicode Consortium, Code chart: Miscellaneous Technical, U+2300 to U+23FF, U+23CF

The names list notes on this character: UI symbol to eject media. Unicode Consortium, NamesList.txt, The Unicode Standard 18.0.0 (character names and annotations), U+23CF

More keyboard symbols

⌘ CommandU+2318⌥ OptionU+2325⌃ ControlU+2303⇧ ShiftU+21E7⇪ Caps LockU+21EA⎋ EscapeU+238B⇥ TabU+21E5⌫ Delete (Backspace)U+232B⌦ Forward DeleteU+2326⏎ ReturnU+23CE⇞ Page UpU+21DE⇟ Page DownU+21DF⇱ HomeU+21F1⇲ EndU+21F2🌐 Fn / GlobeU+1F310

Sources

Each line in quotation marks is copied from the page named, read on the date shown. Unicode names and code points are copied from the Unicode names list and code charts.