Writing hand: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A side view of a hand clutching a pen or pencil, caught in the act of scribbling on a surface. This version includes a medium skin tone modifier to represent a wider range of users.

Usage Context

Used to signal that someone is busy writing, taking notes, or drafting a message. It is the go-to icon for confirming that a document is being prepared or for indicating that you are in the middle of a reply. People often pair it with 📝 to emphasize the focus on documentation or with 📧 when working on a digital draft.

History

The basic writing hand was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The ability to modify skin tones arrived later in 2015 with Unicode 8.0, as part of a major push to make the emoji set more inclusive and reflective of global demographics.

Details

Glyph

✍🏽

Unicode

U+270D U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u270d_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

✍&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-prop

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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