The writing hand: medium-dark skin tone emoji is your go-to for “duly noted,” “sign me up,” and “I’m drafting a masterpiece (or a spicy subtweet).” It signals you’re taking notes, logging receipts, or ceremonially crossing something off the to-do list like a productivity main character. People drop it when they’re journaling, outlining ideas, or pretending to sign invisible contracts—sometimes sarcastically, as in “noted.” It can be flirty (“writing your name in my notebook”), dramatic (“penning my villain arc”), or petty (“adding that to the list”). The skin tone modifier proudly reflects brown skin representation, making the gesture feel personal and accurate in chats and posts.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a right hand at a slight angle holding a classic yellow No. 2 pencil with a pink eraser and silver ferrule, graphite tip touching a short gray scribble line. The shading is glossy and realistic, with the pencil tilted diagonally bottom-left to top-right—mid-scribble energy. It instantly reads as “in progress,” like a teacher grading, a creator storyboarding, or someone jotting tea. Culturally, it vibes with homework nights, NaNoWriMo sprints, calligraphy TikTok, and the eternal “let me write that down” meme.
The Writing Hand emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3486 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 | |
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| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Darker 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270D, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9997, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8D, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 215, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270D, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270d, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9997, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270D 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270D, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9997, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\u270D\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8d\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270D\uD83C\uDFFE" |
