The smiling face with open hands is the internet’s coziest bear hug, condensed into a yellow circle. It says “come here, you” for everything from cheering up a friend to softening bad news, thanking someone sweetly, or adding big wholesome energy to a thread. Online, it often carries uwu vibes, a “no hate, just hugs” disclaimer after a spicy take, or that sheepish “I’m asking for a favor but making it cute” tone. It’s also used playfully or ironically as grabby hands: I will absolutely be taking that last fry, thanks.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a golden-yellow face with a gentle closed-mouth smile, rosy cheeks, and two forward-facing hands under the chin, palms out like an air hug or jazz hands. The hands are slightly curved with soft shading, and the whole thing has that glossy, 3D-style Apple gradient people recognize at a glance. Think aunt-at-a-family-reunion energy mixed with teddy-bear comfort and a sprinkle of meme-era wholesomeness. During remote everything, it became the go-to for “sending a virtual hug,” and it still lands as comforting, cutesy, or flirty depending on the context.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 34 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Hugging Face |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🤗 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🤗 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🤗 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🤗 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f917 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F917 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129303 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x97 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 97 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 227 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD17 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd17 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56599 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F917 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F917 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129303 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F917" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\x97" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD17" |
