A right hand holding a pen while writing. 

Most platforms depict either a blue or black pen, though Huawei’s design features a white pen and Microsoft’s shows a yellow pencil. Additionally, the discontinued LG design showed a left hand instead of a right hand.

Also used between words to show that a lesson is being learned and to indicate someone is taking notes. For example, ✍️look✍️both✍️ways✍️before✍️you✍️cross✍️the✍️street. This use was popularized in TikTok comments. It uses the established practice of placing emojis between words for emphasis. Possibly influenced by the emphatic use of 👏 Clapping Hands, which reflects speech-gesture pairings in Black English in the United States.

Writing Hand was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.