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U+270D · WRITING HAND

Writing Hand

  • CodepointU+270D
  • NameWRITING HAND
  • Emoji namewriting hand
  • Decimal9997
  • BlockDingbats (U+2700–U+27BF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+270D (✍) is WRITING HAND, a symbol in the Dingbats block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “writing hand”, in the People & Body group, subgroup hand-prop. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+270D U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style. It accepts skin-tone modifiers (U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF).

How to type ✍

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 9C 8D3 bytes
UTF-16270D1 code unit
UTF-320000270D4 bytes
HTML decimal✍
HTML hex✍
CSS\270Din content: "…"
JavaScript\u270D
JSON\u270D
Python\u270D
Python\N{WRITING HAND}by name
Java / C#\u270D
C / C++\u270Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{270D}
Go\u270D
Ruby\u270D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9997)
URL-encoded%E2%9C%8Dpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →
U+2707✇Tape Drive U+2708✈Airplane U+2709✉Envelope U+270A✊Raised Fist U+270B✋Raised Hand U+270C✌Victory Hand U+270E✎Lower Right Pencil U+270F✏Pencil U+2710✐Upper Right Pencil U+2711✑White Nib U+2712✒Black Nib U+2713✓Check Mark