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🤗️ Smiling face with open hands emoji

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HTML

🤗

Unicode

U+1F917

What is 🤗️ called?

🤗️ is called the Smiling face with open hands emoji.

Usually called the hugging face or hug emoji because its open hands look ready to offer an embrace. The hands can also resemble jazz hands; 🫂 People hugging explicitly shows two figures hugging.

What does 🤗️ mean?

The smiling face with open hands emoji offers a hug, welcome, comfort, warmth, or enthusiastic support. It is widely known as the hugging face emoji and can make congratulations, thanks, reassurance, and greetings feel more affectionate.

The open hands suggest reaching toward the reader, although the symbol shows one face rather than two people embracing. Use 🫂 People hugging for an explicit hug between people, or 👐 Open hands when the hand gesture itself is the focus.

It works in romantic, family, friendship, and community contexts because a virtual hug does not have to imply romance.

Other meanings

The hands can resemble jazz hands, so the emoji may also express excitement, a cheerful reveal, openness, or “ta-da.” Some readers interpret it more as offering a hug than performing one.

Example Usage

Welcome to the team; we are glad you are here 🤗

Sending you a big hug before your appointment 🤗

More details

Its Unicode code point is U+1F917, and it has been available as an emoji since Emoji 1.0. The common name “hugging face” describes its usual interpretation, while the official name describes the visible open hands.

Visual description

A round yellow face has smiling eyes and a gentle closed smile, with two open yellow hands raised in front at either side. The palms face outward toward the viewer.

Platforms vary the position and size of the hands; some appear to reach forward, while others look more like a celebratory hand flourish.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.

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