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smiling face with open hands
The smiling face with open hands, often called the hugging face, shows a warm smile with two hands stretched out. It offers a hug, comfort, or open-armed enthusiasm โ and sometimes stands in for jazz hands or "ta-da."
It belongs to the smileys & emotion group and shares its caring tone with smiling face with hearts and pleading face.
Reviewed by Chad Solomon ยท Updated 8 June 2026
- Character
- Codepoint
- U+1F917
- Version
- Emoji 1.0
- Year added
- 2015
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Tags
- facehandshughuggingopensmiling