🫂️ People hugging emoji
HTML
🫂
Unicode
U+1FAC2
What is 🫂️ called?
🫂️ is called the People hugging emoji.
Also known as hug emoji, two people hugging, or embrace. It is sometimes mistaken for a film camera at small sizes because the two blue figures overlap.
What does 🫂️ mean?
🫂 is officially named people hugging. It shows two abstract figures embracing and represents a hug, comfort, care, support, affection, reassurance, reunion, or solidarity.
Use it to offer a virtual hug, comfort someone, welcome a friend, celebrate a reunion, show gratitude, or express emotional support. A hug may be platonic, familial, or romantic, so the surrounding message supplies the relationship. Related choices include 🤗 Smiling face with open hands and 🤝 Handshake.
Other meanings
It can mean people hugging, an embrace, virtual hug, comfort, care, support, affection, reassurance, welcome, reunion, sympathy, or solidarity.
Example Usage
Sending you a big virtual hug 🫂
So happy to see you again 🫂
More details
Officially named people hugging. Its code point is U+1FAC2. It was introduced in Emoji 13.0. It is a single code point introduced in Emoji 13.0 with an intentionally abstract, gender-neutral design.
Visual description
Two rounded blue figures overlap face to face with curved arms around one another in an embrace.
The abstract blue figures can be hard to parse at small sizes, but the encircling arms distinguish a hug from two users or a handshake. Colours and fine details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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