Category: Smileys & Emotion

🤗smiling face with open hands

🤗 smiling face with open hands belongs to Smileys & Emotion. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.

Meaning

A smiling face with open hands, often used to represent a hug or express affection and support.

Aliases

:hugs:

Keywords

facehandshughuggingopensmilingsmiling face with open hands

What does 🤗 smiling face with open hands mean?

The smiling face with open hands emoji is commonly known as the "hugging face" and generally represents offering a hug or showing affection. People often use it to express comfort, support, or gratitude in text messages. Depending on context, it can also convey a warm, friendly greeting or a sense of feeling touched by someone's kindness.

Often used for

  • Offering comfort or support to someone having a hard day
  • Expressing gratitude or feeling touched by a kind gesture
  • Sending a virtual hug to a friend or loved one
  • Greeting someone warmly in a text message
  • Showing affection for something cute or sweet
Tone: Because it mimics a hug, this emoji is generally perceived as warm and platonic, though it can occasionally be used in a slightly sarcastic or passive-aggressive way depending on the surrounding text.

Illustrative message examples with 🤗

These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.

  • hope you feel better soon, sending you a big hug 🤗
  • thank you so much for the help today 🤗
  • i miss you so much 🤗
  • aww that puppy is so cute 🤗
  • you've got this, we're all rooting for you 🤗

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How 🤗 smiling face with open hands looks

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🤗 smiling face with open hands codes for developers

Every format below produces 🤗 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.

Emoji🤗
Unicode codepointsU+1F917
HTML (decimal)🤗
HTML (hex)🤗
CSS\1F917
JavaScript\u{1F917}
JSON\uD83E\uDD17
URL encoded%F0%9F%A4%97
Shortcode (GitHub):hugs:

🤗 in other languages

Source: Unicode CLDR

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