U+1F917
🤗 Smiling face with open hands
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Subcategory
- Faces with Hands
- Also known as
- hugging face
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 8.0 (2015)
- Emoji version
- 1.0 (2015)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the 🤗 emoji means
A smiling face with both hands raised, palms out. An offered hug — warmth, welcome, comfort at a distance.
Read as an embrace by most, but a minority sees jazz hands or a shove, so it lands best where the tone is already friendly.
Chat examples
Will your readers see 🤗
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 🤗 emoji is used
The 🤗 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how smiling face with open hands is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 🤗 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | smiling face with open hands |
|---|---|
| Русский | обнимает |
| Deutsch | Gesicht mit umarmenden Händen |
| Español | cara con manos abrazando |
| Français | visage qui fait un câlin |
| Polski | twarz z gestem przytulania |
| Dansk | krammende ansigt |
| Українська | щасливе обличчя з руками, що обіймають |
| Português | rosto abraçando |
Unicode CLDR 48