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🫂People Hugging Emoji

🫂 people hugging is encoded at U+1FAC2 and shipped with Emoji 13.0 (2020). Unicode files it under People & Body → People Symbols, alongside 10 related emojis.

What 🫂 people hugging means

Abstracted people rather than specific ones. 👤 and 👥 do interface work - the default avatar, a placeholder, an anonymous account. 🗣️ marks someone talking loudly or quoting a bad take. 🫂 people hugging landed in 2020 and became a common reply to bad news, and the gender-neutral family sequences added in 2023 sit here too.

Unicode tags this one comfort, embrace and farewell and files it under People & Body → People Symbols.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1FAC2`
HTML hex	`🫂`
HTML decimal	`🫂`
CSS	`\1FAC2`
JavaScript	`\u{1FAC2}`
Python	`\U0001FAC2`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDEC2`
Rust	`\u{1fac2}`
Swift	`\u{1FAC2}`
PHP	`\u{1FAC2}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%AB%82`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F AB 82`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DEC2`
Base64	`8J+rgg==`
Decimal	`129730`
Introduced	Emoji 13.0 (2020)

Keywords

Appears in these collections

How to type 🫂

Windows — press Win + . and search “people hugging”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “comfort”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1fac2 and Enter.
HTML — paste 🫂.

How 🫂 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🫂Apple
🫂Segoe
🫂Noto
🫂System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🫂 people hugging emoji mean?+

🫂 is the people hugging emoji, tagged comfort, embrace and farewell. Abstracted people rather than specific ones. 👤 and 👥 do interface work - the default avatar, a placeholder, an anonymous account. 🗣️ marks someone talking loudly or quoting a bad take. 🫂 people hugging landed in 2020 and became a common reply to bad news, and the gender-neutral family sequences added in 2023 sit here too.

What is the Unicode code for 🫂?+

people hugging is U+1FAC2. In HTML that is 🫂, in CSS \1FAC2, and in JavaScript \u{1FAC2}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🫂 emoji added?+

people hugging got its emoji presentation in Emoji 13.0 (2020). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 13.0 (2020)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🫂 people hugging.