Writing Hand emoji
Type :writing_hand: · People & body
Unicode name Writing Hand · added in Emoji 0.7, 2014
What ✍️ means
A writing hand. Taking notes, signing, or drafting. The universal marker for "I am working on it".
How to type ✍️ without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :writ
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick ✍️ from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:writing_hand: Search terms
Also found by searching hand, write, writing.
Skin tones for ✍️
Writing Hand comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click ✍️ in the popup for a one-off variant.
default ✍🏻 light ✍🏼 medium-light ✍🏽 medium ✍🏾 medium-dark ✍🏿 dark ✍️ in HTML, CSS and code
Writing Hand is a sequence of 2 codepoints, which is why pasting only the first one renders something else. Use the whole thing.
- Unicode
- U+270D U+FE0F
- HTML
- ✍️
- JavaScript
- '\u{270D}\u{FE0F}'
- CSS content
- "\270D \FE0F"
- Python
- '\u270D\uFE0F'
- URL-encoded
- %E2%9C%8D%EF%B8%8F
Related emojis
:wave: 🤚 :raised_back_of_hand: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: ✋️ :high_five: 🖖 :vulcan: 🫱 :rightwards_hand: 🫴 :palm_up: 👌 :ok_hand: 🤌 :pinch: 🤏 :pinching_hand: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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