Writing Hand Emoji
This emoji shows a human hand writing with a pen or pencil. This is the default yellow emoji skin color.
Writing Hand is a fully-qualified emoji, part of Unicode 0.7 , and was added to Emoji 0.7 .
This emoji is part of the People & Body and is grouped with other Hand Prop emojis. Part of the Unicode Dingbats block.
Copy and paste the Writing Hand emoji:
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Codes & Encoding for the Writing Hand Emoji
Click any code below to copy it to your clipboard.
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Codepoint
U+270D U+FE0F✓ Copied -
HTML (decimal)
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HTML (hex)
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CSS
\270D\FE0F✓ Copied -
JavaScript
\u{270D}\u{FE0F}✓ Copied -
URL-encoded
%E2%9C%8D%EF%B8%8F✓ Copied -
Shortcode
:writing_hand:✓ Copied - Unicode block Dingbats
How to Type the Writing Hand Emoji
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iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
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Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
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Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
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macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
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Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
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Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
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Slack Type :writing_hand: (autocompletes to the emoji)
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Discord Type :writing_hand: (autocompletes to the emoji)
Writing Hand Emoji on Different Platforms
Skin Tone Variants of Writing Hand
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How to Use the Writing Hand Emoji
- I'll write that down ✍️
- Got to finish this report ✍️
- Taking notes ✍️