🤗 Smiling Face with Open Hands
The 🤗 Smiling Face with Open Hands emoji (U+1F917) is part of the Smileys category, where it sits in the Face Hand group alongside 6 related emojis. It is tagged with the keywords hug, thank you, and please, which captures how people actually use it: when someone wants to express hug in a message, caption, or comment, 🤗 is one of the glyphs they reach for, and it also carries connotations of thank you, and please. Like every emoji, the Smiling Face with Open Hands renders slightly differently on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft devices because each platform draws its own artwork, but the underlying Unicode code point U+1F917 is identical everywhere, so the meaning travels even when the pixels change. On this page you can copy the 🤗 emoji with one click and paste it into any app that accepts Unicode text — chats, social posts, emails, and documents. Emojis most closely related to 🤗 in the Face Hand group include 🤠Face with Hand Over Mouth, 🫢 Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth, 🫣 Face with Peeking Eye, 🤫 Shushing Face, 🤔 Thinking Face, 🫡 Saluting Face, and it is frequently combined with 🤠Face with Hand Over Mouth and 🫢 Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth in messages. The Smileys category contains 89 emojis in total on Emoji Reference.