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A hand holding a <a href="/pen/" title="🖊 Lower Left Ballpoint Pen">pen</a> or <a href="/pencil/" title="✏️ Pencil">pencil</a> and writing. Most often shown as holding either a blue or black pen, though Microsoft&#39;s design has a red pen. LG&#39;s design displays a left hand, while all other platforms show&nbsp;a right hand. Used broadly to represent writing.

Also used between words to show that a lesson is being learned and to indicate someone is taking notes. For example, ✍️look✍️both✍️ways✍️before✍️you✍️cross✍️the✍️street. This use&nbsp;was popularized in <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-happens-in-the-tiktok-comments/">TikTok comments</a>. It uses the established practice of placing emojis between words for emphasis. Possibly influenced by the emphatic use of <a href="/clapping-hands/">👏 Clapping Hands</a>, which reflects speech-gesture pairings in Black English in the United States.

Writing Hand

A gesture showing the index finger and&nbsp;thumb touching&nbsp;to make an open circle. Represents &ldquo;I&rsquo;m okay&rdquo; or &ldquo;yes, that&rsquo;s correct / good&rdquo;.

In American Sign Language (ASL), the number nine is represented with this gesture. The same hand sign can be seen as offensive in some cultures, including in parts of Europe, the Middle East, and South America.

This can also be used as&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/no-the-ok-hand-is-not-a-symbol-of-white-power/">a&nbsp;symbol of White Supremacy</a>, depending on context.

OK Hand Sign

A hand with thumb and index finger in close proximity. Used to suggest that&nbsp;something is small, or to gesture a&nbsp;small amount.

Pinching Hand

Two hands clapping emoji, which when used multiple times can be used&nbsp;as a round of applause.

Clapping Hands Sign

A classic yellow pencil. Depicted as a graphite pencil, like a U.S. #2 or European HB, with a sharpened tip and pink eraser. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, with its tip at the lower left or right. Commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, and schooling.

Samsung&rsquo;s pencil was <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/pencil/">previously red</a>, Google&rsquo;s <a href="/google/android-7.0/pencil/">green</a>.

Pencil

The silver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nib_(pen)">nib</a> of a fountain pen, which distributes ink onto a writing surface. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, with its tip at the lower left or right. Like&nbsp;<a href="/fountain-pen/">🖋️&nbsp;Fountain Pen</a>, commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, and signing (e.g., laws, deals, in sports).

Several platforms, including Google, Microsoft, and Samsung, depict only a nib, sometimes ringed with gold. Other platforms, including Apple and Twitter, feature the same designs as their <a href="/fountain-pen/">🖋️&nbsp;Fountain Pen</a>, but with their tips angled to the lower right.

Black Nib

A black fountain pen with a silver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nib_(pen)">nib</a>, as used for signing important documents. Often depicted with gold hardware. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle with its tip at the lower left. Like <a href="/black-nib/">✒️&nbsp;Black Nib</a>, commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, and signing (e.g., laws, deals, in sports).

Apple and Twitter&nbsp;feature the same designs as their <a href="/black-nib/">✒️&nbsp;Black Nib</a>, but with their tips angled to the lower left.

Lower Left Fountain Pen

A blue or black ballpoint pen, as used for everyday writing. Depicted with its cap removed onto its end or as retractable pen. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, its tip at the lower left. Commonly used for various content concerning writing (e.g., creative, professional) as well as signing (deals, laws, in sports).

Google&#39;s design <a href="/google/android-7.0/pen/">previously featured</a> a brown-colored pen. Not to be confused with <a href="/black-nib/">✒️&nbsp;Black Nib</a> or <a href="/fountain-pen/">🖋️&nbsp;Fountain Pen</a>, though their applications often overlap.

Lower Left Ballpoint Pen

A crayon, as children use to color. Depicted as red on most platforms with two black stripes on its label, resembling a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayola#Crayons">Crayola crayon</a>. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, its tip at the lower left. Commonly used for various content concerning drawing, colors, arts and crafts, and schooling.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s crayon is green while Facebook&rsquo;s is orange.

Lower Left Crayon

A white piece of paper with text written on it by a yellow <a href="/pencil/">pencil</a>, positioned over the sheet, tip down, at a 45&deg; angle. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing, including signing (in sports).

WhatsApp and Facebook&rsquo;s designs depict an old-fashioned office <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum">memorandum</a> on pink paper. Apple&rsquo;s suggests an informal note with the easter egg of handwritten text from its 1997&ndash;2002 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different">Crazy Ones/Think Different</a> ad campaign: Here&rsquo;s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes&hellip;

Not to be confused with <a href="/page-facing-up/">📄 Page Facing Up</a> or other emojis featuring sheets of paper.

Memo

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Writing Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Writing Hand: Dark Skin Tone

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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Unicode 1.1 were pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by 17 years, and included many characters primarily sourced from the Zapf Dingbats font.

The following characters were added to Unicode in 1993 and many were given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

Microsoft&#39;s Teams software includes 3D renderings of the Fluent emoji set that make its debut within <a href="/microsoft/windows-11-november-2021-update/">Windows 11&#39;s November 2021</a> update.&nbsp;

As of February 2022, this update is available for select Microsoft Teams users, but&nbsp;is expected to be available for all users across both Work &amp; School and Home additions in the near future.

Initially <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-fluent-emoji-designs-from-microsoft/">previewed</a> ahead of <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a> 2021, many of these 3D emoji renderings are also animated.

A subset of Skype emoticons were available in Microsoft Teams before the 3D&nbsp;Fluent&nbsp;set began&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1491752269880115200">rolling out in February 2022</a>. Many of Skype&#39;s unique shortcodes-based emoticons have also been given a&nbsp;3D&nbsp;Fluent&nbsp;design within Microsoft Teams.

Emoticons and emojis used in Microsoft Teams, including animated 3D Fluent emoji designs.

Microsoft Teams Emoji List

Beginning its rollout in early April 2023, this update to the animated Fluent emoji set introduced support for emoji recommendations from up to 2022&#39;s <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>.

15.0

Beginning its rollout in September&nbsp;2022, this update to the animated Fluent emoji set introduced support for emoji recommendations from up to 2021&#39;s <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>.

14.0

The first incarnation of Microsoft&#39;s 3D Fluent emoji set, originally <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-fluent-emoji-designs-from-microsoft/">previewed</a> ahead of <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a> 2021, which is available within Microsoft Teams and select other Microsoft platforms.&nbsp;

The set began rolling out to select users of Microsoft Teams from <a href="https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1491752269880115200">February 2022</a>, and as of July 2022 is available for all users.

The set includes over 800 animated emoji designs and supports emoji&nbsp;recommendations from up to late 2020&#39;s <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>.

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✍️ Writing Hand on Microsoft Teams (3D Animated) 15.0

✍️ Writing Hand on Microsoft Teams (3D Animated) 15.0

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