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
✍��
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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