Writing hand: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A hand with medium-dark skin tone holding a pen or stylus, captured in the middle of a writing or drawing motion. A small blue scrap of paper is typically tucked underneath to indicate that the action of taking notes is occurring.

Usage Context

Widely used to signify that someone is drafting a message, signing a document, or working on a creative project. It is often sent as a status update to tell friends you are busy or to acknowledge that you have received an assignment, similar to the ✍️ base emoji or the 📝 memo icon.

History

While the basic hand motion dates back to early digital character sets, the inclusion of skin tone modifiers was finalized in 2015 as part of Unicode 8.0, allowing for more accurate representation of human gestures across diverse global user bases.

Details

Glyph

✍🏾

Unicode

U+270D U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u270d_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

✍&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory hand-prop

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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