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✍️Writing Hand Emoji

✍️ is the writing hand emoji, U+270D U+FE0F, one of 3 in the Hand Props set. It arrived with Unicode 7.0 (2014) and is commonly used for hand, write and writing.

What ✍️ writing hand means

Three hands holding something. ✍️ marks signing, taking notes, or writing anything at all; 🤳 selfie, added in 2016, covers photographing yourself and by extension vanity; 💅 has drifted furthest from its subject - it now mostly signals unbothered dismissal, the visual equivalent of examining your nails while someone complains.

Unicode tags this one hand, write and writing and files it under People & Body → Hand Props.

Copy variants

writing hand carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How ✍️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

✍U+270Dwriting hand
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+270D U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`✍️`
HTML decimal	`✍️`
CSS	`\270D\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{270D}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0000270D\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u270D\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{270d}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{270D}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{270D}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%9C%8D%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9C 8D EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`270D FE0F`
Base64	`4pyN77iP`
Decimal	`9997 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Skin-tone variants

The ✍️ emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.

Keywords

hand
write
writing

Appears in these collections

How to type ✍️

Windows — press Win + . and search “writing hand”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “hand”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 270d and Enter.
HTML — paste ✍️.

How ✍️ renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

✍️Apple
✍️Segoe
✍️Noto
✍️System

Frequently asked questions

What does the ✍️ writing hand emoji mean?+

✍️ is the writing hand emoji, tagged hand, write and writing. Three hands holding something. ✍️ marks signing, taking notes, or writing anything at all; 🤳 selfie, added in 2016, covers photographing yourself and by extension vanity; 💅 has drifted furthest from its subject - it now mostly signals unbothered dismissal, the visual equivalent of examining your nails while someone complains.

What is the Unicode code for ✍️?+

writing hand is U+270D U+FE0F. In HTML that is ✍️, in CSS \270D\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{270D}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ✍️ emoji added?+

writing hand got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ✍️ writing hand.