Smiling face with open hands

What 🤗 means

A hug, or open-armed warmth. Most people read the open hands as a hug, which matches its old name, “hugging face.”

Sent to comfort a friend, thank someone warmly, or welcome a newcomer. It fits supportive and grateful messages and is kind enough for work chat.

The hands can also look like jazz hands, so some people use it for excitement or a cheerful “ta-da.”

Facts

Smiling face with open hands 🤗 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face hand. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :hugs: or :smiling_face_with_open_hands:. People also look for it with words like “face”, “hands”, “hug”, or “hugging”.

Timeline

1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion · Emoji 1.0