✍🏼 is the universal signal for “hang on, I’m drafting a masterpiece (or a petty subtweet).” People drop it when they’re taking notes, journaling big feelings, signing off on plans, or telling someone “noted.” with that crisp, HR-core energy. It can be playful—“adding you to my to-do (date) list”—or savage—“recording these receipts for later.” You’ll see it paired with Dear Diary jokes, study grind posts, fanfic announcements, and the classic teacher-writing-your-name-on-the-board meme.
On Apple devices, the emoji shows a right hand with a medium-light complexion gripping a blue ballpoint pen at a slanted angle, laying down a tiny ink squiggle; soft shading, a silver pen tip, and a tidy three-quarter view make it instantly recognizable. It vibes as official yet casual, perfect for “signing the check,” “logging a bug,” or “penning a 47-paragraph Notes app apology.” It can read flirty (“writing you into my weekend plans”), dramatic (author mode unlocked), or sarcastic (“duly noted, counselor”). Bonus cultural nod: the whole “pen is mightier than the sword” aura—except online, it’s mightier than the caps lock.
The Writing Hand emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2191 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 | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Light Brown 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, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270D, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9997, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8D, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 215, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270D, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270d, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9997, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270D 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270D, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9997, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\u270D\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8d\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270D\uD83C\uDFFC" |
