Writing hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A side-profile of a hand with a medium-light skin tone holding a pen or pencil, actively marking a piece of paper. The tip of the writing utensil is pressed against the surface, indicating the act of jotting down notes or signing a document.

Usage Context

Used to confirm that someone is composing a message, writing a letter, or taking notes during a meeting. It is frequently sent as a shorthand for 'I am working on this' or 'I will send you the details shortly.' It pairs well with 📝 to denote a finished task or ✍️ to represent the general act of creation.

History

Part of the ongoing expansion of Unicode’s diversity standards, this specific skin-tone variant was added in 2015 as part of Emoji 1.0. These hand signs were developed to bring the inclusivity of human variety to digital communication, building on the basic writing hand icon that has been a staple of computer interfaces since the early days of word processors and icon-based GUIs.

Details

Glyph

✍🏼

Unicode

U+270D U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u270d_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

✍&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-prop

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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