Hugging Face Emoji
Open hands and a warm smile, offering a hug, comfort or enthusiastic welcome.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Hugging Face emoji mean?
Open hands and a warm smile, offering a hug, comfort or enthusiastic welcome.
Warm and openly affectionate. Because the hands can also read as jazz hands or grabbing, it occasionally lands as enthusiasm rather than comfort.
How to use 🤗 naturally
Supporting someone having a hard time, or greeting a friend you have missed.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 🤗
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Hugging Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A smiling face with both hands raised and open. The hands are offering an embrace, though several platforms draw them ambiguously enough to suggest jazz hands.
- Today
How its use evolved
Supporting someone having a hard time, or greeting a friend you have missed.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🤗 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Sorry about today, thinking of you 🤗
So good to see you again 🤗
Come here, you did brilliantly 🤗
When to use it
Using 🤗 clearly
Supporting someone having a hard time, or greeting a friend you have missed. It lands as hugging face meaning or hug emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the hugging face emoji
What does 🤗 mean in a text message?
Open hands and a warm smile, offering a hug, comfort or enthusiastic welcome. Warm and openly affectionate. Because the hands can also read as jazz hands or grabbing, it occasionally lands as enthusiasm rather than comfort.
Is 🤗 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are hugging face meaning, hug emoji, jazz hands emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤗 look different on another device?
U+1F917 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the hugging face emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🤗 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the hugging face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🤗 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🤗 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F917 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🤗 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤗 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F917 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F917} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%97 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F917
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- hugging face meaninghug emojijazz hands emoji
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