Open hands

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Shortcode: :open_hands:
Unicode: U+1F450
HTML: 👐
CSS: \1F450
JavaScript: "\u{1F450}"
URL: %F0%9F%91%90

What 👐 means

Two open hands held out. 👐 can mean a hug, openness, or excited jazz hands.

Some send it as "come here, hug!" while others use it for jazz hands or for "here, take it." The meaning is less fixed than most hands, so context decides.

For a clear hug, 🫂 or 🤗 is less ambiguous.

Facts

Open hands 👐 is an emoji in the people and body category, under hands. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :open_hands:. People also look for it with words like “hand”, “hands”, “hug”, or “jazz”.