A hand gripping a pen, mid-stroke on an invisible page, the writing-hand emoji covers anything involving putting words down. Taking notes, signing a document, journaling, or grinding through homework — it's the go-to for 'noted' or 'working on it.'
What ✍️ means
A hand with the structure of a pen held between the forefinger and the thumb. This emoji signifies writing, signing, sketching, painting, and drawing too.
The ✍️ Writing Hand emoji can mean penning down your thoughts, drawing something, making art, signing something important, anything related to a pen, and paper. It is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms and the color of the pen/pencil would vary.
How and when to use it
- If someone asks what you're doing, and you were writing, then voilà, send the ✍️ emoji to tell them what you were doing.
- ✍️ can also be used if you're sending across some docs and want the receiver to sign them and send them back.
- If you're rooting for an online petition and you want your friends and family to sign it as well, send the petition along with ✍️.
- If you're planning on opening a writing contest, for poetry, short stories, anything, you can use ✍️ while drafting out a virtual notice.
- You can also use ✍️ to indicate drawing and sketching as well.
- ✍️ is also interpreted as a form of memorizing something, or noting something down. So if your buddy said something nasty, use this emoji to tell them that you will remember what they said.
- ✍️ can be used the other way around too. If you're the one saying something important and you want the receiver to make note of it, send this emoji.
Other Names
- ✍️ Writing
- ✍️ Write
- ✍️ Penning Down
- ✍️ Noting Down
- ✍️ Jotting
- ✍️ Signing
- ✍️ Drawing
- ✍️ Sketching
- ✍️ Art
- ✍️ Artist
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › hand-prop
- Codepoints
U+270D U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:writing_hand:GitHub- Keywords
- hand, write, writing
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Skin tone variations
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ✍️ Writing Hand or 🪰 Fly?
Runs with a crowd
✍️ keeps company in hand emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.