What does the smiling face with open hands emoji mean?

A yellow face smiling with open hands, as if giving a hug. May be used to offer thanks and support, show love and care, or express warm, positive feelings more generally. Due to its hand gesture, often used to represent jazz hands, indicating such feelings as excitement, enthusiasm, or a sense of flourish or accomplishment. Joins <%= link_to "thinking face", emoji_path("thinking-face") %>, <%= link_to "shushing face", emoji_path("shushing-face") %>, and <%= link_to "face with hand over mouth", emoji_path("face-with-hand-over-mouth") %> as one of the few smileys featuring hands. For a more obvious hug, see <%= link_to "people hugging", emoji_path("people-hugging") %>. Smiling Face with Open Hands was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 under the name "Hugging Face" and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

How to use the smiling face with open hands emoji?

Copy and paste 🤗 into your messages, e.g., I'm so grateful for your help, 🤗!. It works on most platforms.

What is the Unicode code for smiling face with open hands?

The Unicode code point for 🤗 is U+1F917.

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🤗 "smiling face with open hands" emoji (copy and paste)

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smiling face with open hands

A yellow face smiling with open hands, as if giving a hug.

Meaning of the smiling face with open hands Emoji

A yellow face smiling with open hands, as if giving a hug. May be used to offer thanks and support, show love and care, or express warm, positive feelings more generally. Due to its hand gesture, often used to represent jazz hands, indicating such feelings as excitement, enthusiasm, or a sense of flourish or accomplishment. Joins thinking face, shushing face, and face with hand over mouth as one of the few smileys featuring hands. For a more obvious hug, see people hugging. Smiling Face with Open Hands was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 under the name "Hugging Face" and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Usage Examples

I'm so grateful for your help, 🤗!
Sending you a big virtual hug, 🤗, to cheer you up.
Wow, what an amazing performance, 🤗!
Thanks for being there for me, 🤗, it means a lot.
I feel so excited about the news, 🤗!

Alternative Names

smiling face with open hands, hugging face

Related Word Associations

thanks, support, love, care, excitement, enthusiasm, accomplishment

Appearance in OpenMoji

Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 🤗 smiling face with open hands emoji for cross-platform use:

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SVG format:

SVG (vector)

Unicode Data

Code Point(s):: U+1F917
Version:: Emoji E1.0

Developer Codes

Shortcode (Discord)	`:hugging_face:`
Shortcode (GitHub)	`:hugging_face:`
Shortcode (Slack)	`:hugging_face:`
HTML Dec	`🤗`
HTML Hex	`🤗`
CSS	`\01F917`
C, C++ & Python	`\U0001f917`
Java, JavaScript & JSON	`\uD83E\uDD17`
Perl	`\x{1F917}`
PHP & Ruby	`\u{1F917}`
Punycode
URL Escape Code	`%F0%9F%A4%97`