People Hugging Emoji
Two figures in a hug, for comfort and support with no romantic reading.
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Meaning & usage
What does the People Hugging emoji mean?
Two figures in a hug, for comfort and support with no romantic reading.
Comforting and quiet. It offers support without words and without romance, which suits friends, family and hard news.
How to use 🫂 naturally
Condolences, support, missing someone and reunions.
Hand gestures can be direct and efficient, which makes them useful in quick replies. Their tone varies across cultures and age groups, so a short accompanying phrase can prevent ambiguity.
From standard to slang
The history of 🫂
- 2020
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, People Hugging was first defined as emoji in Emoji 13.0, dated 2020. A full release across faces, animals, food and objects.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Two figures holding each other, drawn without faces on most platforms. Leaving the faces out keeps the hug free of any particular relationship, so it works for a friend, a parent or a colleague.
- Today
How its use evolved
Condolences, support, missing someone and reunions.
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.
I am so sorry, sending you a big hug 🫂
Here if you want to talk 🫂
Finally seeing you next week 🫂
When to use it
Using 🫂 clearly
Condolences, support, missing someone and reunions. It lands as hug emoji or hugging 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 people hugging emoji
What does 🫂 mean in a text message?
Two figures in a hug, for comfort and support with no romantic reading. Comforting and quiet. It offers support without words and without romance, which suits friends, family and hard news.
Is 🫂 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are hug emoji, hugging emoji, 🫂 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🫂 look different on another device?
U+1FAC2 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 people hugging 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 people hugging emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🫂 as emoji in Emoji 13.0, dated 2020. 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+1FAC2 | 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 | \1FAC2 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAC2} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AB%82 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FAC2
- Category
- Hands & Gestures
- Also known as
- hug emojihugging emoji🫂 meaning
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