✍🏻 Writing Hand: Light Skin Tone
Copy and paste this emoji: ✍🏻
Emoji Meaning
A light-skinned hand holding a pen, poised as if about to write. The pen’s color and the hand’s angle may vary by platform. Used in its literal sense.
This emoji depicts a writing hand holding a ballpoint pen or pencil — a playful take on a smiley. Unlike the classic version of the hand, this variant is rendered in the palest skin tone — pale.
People use it alongside other emojis to build a clearer message for the person they re messaging. It typically means: I m writing — writing, write it down, I m marking myself.
Unicode Name
- ✍🏻 Writing Hand: Light Skin Tone
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
✍🏻 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+270D U+1F3FB
Shortcodes
- Emojipedia
- Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%9C%8D%F0%9F%8F%BB |
| Punycode | xn--8bi5548m |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 9C 8D F0 9F 8F BB |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u270D\uD83C\uDFFB |
| C, C++, Python | \u270D\U0001f3fb |
| CSS | \270D \01F3FB |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{270D}\u{1F3FB} |
| Perl | \x{270D}\x{1F3FB} |
| HTML hex | ✍🏻 |
| HTML dec | ✍🏻 |
Tags: hand, light skin tone, write, writing hand
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Other hand gestures