A hand holding a pen or ✏️encil menaing' >✏️Pencil">pencil and writing. Most often shown as holding either a blue or black pen, though Microsoft's design has a red pen.
Unsurprisingly, this emoji is used in different meanings related to writing. For example, it may mean writing a letter to a friend or someone else (in this sense, it may even be used with?anta Claus menaing' >?Santa Claus emoji to symbolize someone's belief in miracles).
It may also mean writing a test in?chool menaing' >?School. And, of course, it may also indicate the process of writing a?ooks menaing' >?Book or a poem when used by people with according professions and hobbies. Short for "it was written": essentially meaning an event happened for a reason and fate aligned.
Writing Hand was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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✍️ Writing hand
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