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Emoji Information

LEFT WRITING HAND
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Left Writing Hand

Proposed Category

→ 270D ✍ writing hand

Information

Left Writing Hand refers to a proposed or discussed emoji concept representing a hand writing with the left hand, usually understood as a counterpart to the existing Writing Hand emoji. It was never approved as a distinct official Unicode emoji, and major platforms such as Apple did not release a separate left-handed version. The idea fits into broader Unicode and emoji discussions about handedness, accessibility, inclusivity, and whether mirrored variants should be encoded separately or handled through design choices.

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

  1. This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) 1986 of 2393
Google Android Picture Image not available
Google Hangouts Picture Image not available
Twitter.com Picture Image not available
LG Emoji Picture Image not available
Samsung Emoji Picture Image not available
Phantom Open Emoji Picture Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name :writing_hand:
Keywords

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range 1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory Gesture Symbols

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version iOS 8 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) 🖎
UTF-8 Character Count 1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) 🖎
Decimal HTML Entity 🖎
Hexadecimal HTML Entity 🖎
Hex Code Point(s) 1f58e
Formal Unicode Notation U+1F58E
Decimal Code Point(s) 128398
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x8E
UTF-8 Hex Bytes F0 9F 96 8E
UTF-8 Octal Bytes 360 237 226 216
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) 0xD83D 0xDD8E
UTF-16 Hex d83ddd8e
UTF-16 Dec 55357 56718
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) 0x0001F58E
UTF-32 Hex 01F58E
UTF-32 Dec 128398
Python Src u"\U0001F58E"
PHP Src "\xf0\x9f\x96\x8e"
C/C++/Java Src "\uD83D\uDD8E"
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