The writing hand: light skin tone emoji is the digital equivalent of putting pen to paper—notes, autographs, dramatic diary entries, and spicy clapbacks all included. Online, it screams “Noted.” with peak HR energy, doubles as “I’m writing you up (joking… maybe),” and is a favorite for the “write that down!” meme when someone drops a life hack or chaotic idea worth remembering. It can be sweetly flirty (“writing your name in my notebook”), or ominously playful (“adding you to The List,” cue Death Note and Mean Girls’ Burn Book vibes). It’s also a cozy study-session staple: think essay mode, journaling, poetry drafts, or captioning your next Substack brain dump.
On Apple/iOS, this shows a right hand with a light skin tone at a three-quarter angle, fingers curled as it grips a dark pen with metallic accents, the tip kissing the page to leave a small blue ink squiggle. The pose looks mid-sentence, like you paused to sip coffee before finishing a thought. The styling is glossy and softly shaded, instantly recognizable in timelines when people pair it with “Noted.” or “pen to paper.” Whether you’re documenting drama, sketching bars, or signing off with author energy, this emoji brings analog flair to our all-screen lives.
The Writing Hand emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2072 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture | ![]() |
| Google Android Picture | ![]() |
| 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | White Writing Hand |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ✍🏻 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ✍🏻 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | ✍ 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | ✍ 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 270d, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270D, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9997, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8D, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 215, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270D, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270d, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9997, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270D 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270D, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9997, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\u270D\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8d\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270D\uD83C\uDFFB" |