The smiling face with open hands emoji, formerly named hugging face, shows a warm, blushing face with two open hands framing the cheeks. It's sent as a virtual hug, expressing warmth, comfort, or affection, and can also convey excitement or appreciation toward someone.
What 🤗 means
The Hugging Face emoji is a yellow face with a happy smile and a little blush on the cheeks. It is characterized with hands placed on both side of the face.
As the name suggests, this emoji sends across hugs via emoji. It shows warmth, love, and affection. It is like the 😊 Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes emoji, but with hands.
The jazz hands here particularly don't look like a hug, but rather they signify excitement and appreciation for someone. Hence, the emoji too tends to show a loving appreciation kind of a feeling.
How and when to use it
- If someone just told you about something they achieved, you can send this emoji along with some sweet words of encouragement.
- If you're sending someone something sweet, then you can send this emoji to show warmth and affection.
- The 🤗 Hugging Face emoji can be used to just send virtual hugs on text.
Other Names
- 🤗 Hugging
- 🤗 Loving Hugs
- 🤗 Warm Hugs
- 🤗 Smiling Hugs
- 🤗 Hugs
- 🤗 Hug
- 🤗 Wide Open Arms
- 🤗 Arms
- 🤗 Welcoming
- 🤗 Welcome
- 🤗 Acceptance
🤗 in real conversations
What does 🤗 mean from a girl?
A virtual hug — comfort, congratulations, or “come here” affection sent through the screen. It shows up under good news and bad news alike, wherever a real hug isn't possible.
What does 🤗 mean from a guy?
Genuine warmth, though guys reach for it less often than a thumbs-up or fire emoji, which makes it stand out more when it does appear — usually for real congratulations or comfort.
What does 🤗 mean in texting?
Shorthand for “sending you a hug.” It works for celebration (“you got the job!! 🤗”), consolation, or just plain excitement to see someone.
At a glance
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-hand
- Codepoints
U+1F917- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:hugs:GitHub:hugging_face:Slack · Discord:hugging:Discord- Keywords
- face, hands, hug, hugging, open, smiling
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🤗 Smiling Face with Open Hands or 📊 Bar Chart?
Runs with a crowd
🤗 keeps company in happy emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.