U+270D "✍" Writing Hand Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✍
U+270D "✍" Writing Hand is a typographic symbol that depicts a right hand holding a quill or pen, poised as if in the act of writing on a surface. Originally part of the Dingbats block and encoded in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, it is commonly used in digital communication to represent handwriting, note taking, or signing a document. The symbol often conveys a thoughtful or creative process, and its design may vary slightly across different fonts and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+270D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Writing Hand |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ✍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ✍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x270D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000270D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u270d |