Writing hand: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-toned human hand holding a pen and hovering over a piece of paper, caught in the middle of writing a note or signature.

Usage Context

Used to confirm that a message is being composed, to signal that someone is taking notes, or to indicate that a contract or letter is currently being drafted. It is frequently sent as a precursor to sending a long text or document, functioning similarly to the ✍️ base emoji or the 📝 memo emoji.

History

While the hand gesture has existed in character sets for decades, the ability to modify the skin tone was added in 2015 as part of Unicode 8.0, allowing for more diverse representation across global messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

✍🏿

Unicode

U+270D U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u270d_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

✍&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-prop

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository