Writing hand: light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand with a light skin tone gripping a pencil and positioned over a small piece of paper. It shows the hand mid-motion, indicating that writing is currently happening.

Usage Context

Used to signal that a person is busy drafting a message, signing a document, or writing a letter. It serves as a visual shorthand for being 'on the clock' or creating content, and is frequently used alongside 📝 or ✍️ to emphasize the act of taking notes or sending a formal request.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of the Unicode 7.0 update in 2014. The modifier for skin tone was added shortly after in Unicode 8.0, reflecting a move toward broader representation in early mobile messaging platforms that were expanding their emoji sets to allow for more personalized communication.

Details

Glyph

✍🏻

Unicode

U+270D U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u270d_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

✍&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-prop

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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.

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