Skin Tone Variants
Writing Hand: Light Skin Tone is the Unicode character โ๐ป at codepoint U+270D in the Dingbats block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard โ or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Writing Hand: Light Skin Tone
To use the Writing Hand: Light Skin Tone symbol (โ๐ป) in HTML, insert the
entity ✍🏻 directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\270D';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u270D' evaluates to โ๐ป. In Python source, write '\u270D'.
The character encodes to E2 9C 8D as UTF-8 bytes and 270D as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9997.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.