Writing hand
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- Shortcode
:writing_hand:- Unicode
U+270D- HTML
✍- CSS
\270D- JavaScript
"\u{270D}"- URL
%E2%9C%8D%EF%B8%8F
What ✍️ means
A hand holding a pen. ✍️ stands for writing, signing, studying and taking notes.
Homework, journaling, signing a contract and drafting a book all fit. As a joke, "taking notes ✍️" replies to advice or a wild story, either sincerely or with sarcasm. In work chat it can mean "noted, I'm writing it down."
Facts
Writing hand ✍️ is an emoji in the people and body category, under hand prop. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :writing_hand:. People also look for it with words like “hand”, “write”, or “writing”.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
- 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2022
2024
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.