Smiling Face with Open Hands Emoji
What does the Smiling Face with Open Hands emoji mean?
A yellow face in good spirits with closed eyes and a smiling mouth, arms outstretched and hands open as if offering a hug. It radiates warmth, care and affection, well suited to showing support, love, or comfort. It can also express excitement, a sense of accomplishment, or simple contentment, though it’s most usually used to show encouragement and solidarity.
A contented yellow face with a gentle closed smile and crescent-shaped eyes, its open palms held low — this emoji is offering a hug. It’s very similar to the smiling face with smiling eyes. Most often, people send it to support someone or to calm them down. Others use it as a warm hello or a friendly goodbye.
Also Known As
- 🤗 Hug
- 🤗 Hugging
- 🤗 Hugs
Apple Name
- 🤗 Hugging Face
Unicode Name
- 🤗 Hugging Face
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Smiling Face with Open Hands emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🤗 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F917
Shortcodes
- works in Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
- works in Github
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A4%97 |
| Punycode | xn--zp9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A4 97 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDD17 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f917 |
| CSS | \01F917 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F917} |
| Perl | \x{1F917} |
| HTML hex | 🤗 |
| HTML dec | 🤗 |
Tags: face, hug, hugging, open hand, miling face, miling face with open hand, hands, open, smiling
Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Faces with hands