✍️ Writing Hand
A right hand holding a pen or pencil and writing. Shown with a blue pen on all platforms except Apple which has a black pen.
Writing Hand was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Apple Name
✍️ Writing Hand
Modifiers
The Writing Hand emoji supports skin tone modifiers. A yellow (or other non-human) skin tone should be shown by default, unless an emoji modifier is applied.
- ✍🏻 Writing Hand: Light Skin Tone
- ✍🏼 Writing Hand: Medium-Light Skin Tone
- ✍🏽 Writing Hand: Medium Skin Tone
- ✍🏾 Writing Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
- ✍🏿 Writing Hand: Dark Skin Tone
Platforms without support for emoji modifiers display a missing symbol character (box with a cross, alien, or question mark in it) next to any modified emoji.