Left Writing Hand

🖎 shows a hand writing with the left hand. In a message, read it literally as a writing marker unless the surrounding words add a clearer point. It is a font-drawn text symbol, so its appearance depends on font support.

Text symbol

What 🖎 means

It marks writing done with the left hand.

The 2012 Unicode repertoire maps 🖎 to , the general writing-hand sign. 2012 dates the recorded character, not the practice of left-handed writing.

A manicule is a pointing-hand mark used to flag text; 🖎 shows writing instead.

Is 🖎 an emoji?

No, not in Unicode’s emoji data.

A 2018 Unicode discussion raised emoji status for it; Unicode Emoji 18.0 data (2026) still excludes it.

Literal: it reads as a writing marker, not a ready-made reaction.

For a lone send, start with the literal writing gesture; let the message supply any extra meaning.

Part of the collection

✍️

Writing & Notes Emoji

Don't confuse it with

✍

Writing Hand

✍ is the general writing-hand sign; 🖎 specifies the left hand.

Combination ideas

Writing notes left-handed.

A proud left-handed writer.

A lefty writing with a fountain pen.

Questions people ask

Why does 🖎 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.