✍️Writing Hand Emoji
Generally, ✍️ means someone wants to express that they're writing something, or that they're involved in a creative writing process. It’s often used to signal a message is handwritten or a personal note.
The ✍️ emoji shows a hand writing.
- Unicode
- U+270D U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :writing_hand:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the ✍️ Writing Hand emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
People also look for it as writing emoji.
Writing Hand emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the writing hand as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Writing Hand emoji skin tones
✍️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Writing Hand emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :writing_hand:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+270D.
How to type the ✍️ Writing Hand emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+270D when there is no key at all.
Writing Hand emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Writing Hand emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around writing hand for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with ✍️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ✍️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What ✍️ means in other countries
A neutral stand-in for writing, note-taking, or signing something, with tone set entirely by the message around it.
jotting a note, journaling, or “writing this down” in a lighthearted sense
often shorthand for signing a document or finalizing an agreement
Before you send it: Reads clearly in either tone; no need to swap it out, just let the surrounding text carry the context.
What ✍️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+270D, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
✍️ vs 👋 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Writing Hand
Code: U+270D U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :writing_hand:
Generally, ✍️ means someone wants to express that they're writing something, or that they're involved in a creative writing process.
Unicode name: Waving Hand
Code: U+1F44B · added 2010
Shortcode: :wave:
Generally, 👋 means “hello” or “goodbye.
Where the ✍️ Writing Hand emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Writing Hand was approved as U+270D U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ✍️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.