U+270D U+1F3FC
✍🏼 Writing hand: medium-light skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- Hands with Props
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 8.0 (2015)
- Emoji version
- 1.0 (2015)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the ✍🏼 emoji means
A hand holding a pen to paper. Writing — a note taken, a form filled, a name signed.
It stands for the act rather than the text, so it announces work in progress: minutes, homework, a contract about to be dealt with. 📝 covers the page, this one covers the hand.
Chat examples
What ✍🏼 is made of
This symbol is written with several code points rather than one. Here is what stands behind it, in order.
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✍
writing hand
U+270D -
🏼
skin tone
U+1F3FC
Will your readers see ✍🏼
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the ✍🏼 emoji is used
The ✍🏼 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how writing hand: medium-light skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- ✍🏼 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
Unicode CLDR 48