The writing hand: dark skin tone is the ✍🏿 energy of “I’m on it.” It’s perfect for announcing you’re taking notes, signing on the dotted line, journaling your villain arc, or filing paperwork with the vibes department. People toss it in texts to mean noted (sometimes sweet, sometimes stone-cold sarcastic), or to imply receipts are being gathered as we speak.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a right hand with rich dark-brown skin holding a blue ballpoint pen at a slight 45° angle, a tiny ink stroke trailing like mid-scribble. The pen has a metallic tip/clip and the hand is shaded with Apple’s glossy 3D look, so it feels like a freeze-frame of a signature moment. You can almost hear the pen click.
Online, ✍🏿 is meme gold: dropped between words for dramatic emphasis (I ✍🏿 need ✍🏿 everyone ✍🏿 calm), posted with “sign me up,” or used when you’re drafting tweets like a courtroom stenographer. It swings from flirty (“taking notes on you”), to academic (“dear diary, today I wrote an essay in the group chat”), to petty (“logging this for future reference”). It also vibes with journaling trends—bullet journals, manifestation scripting, studygram—aka the aesthetic of putting thoughts to paper when Notes app just isn’t theatrical enough.
The Writing Hand emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3487 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: | Black 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270D, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9997, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8D, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 215, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270D, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270d, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9997, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270D 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270D, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9997, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\u270D\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8d\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270D\uD83C\uDFFF" |
