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🤗Smiling Face With Open Hands Emoji
Unicode added 🤗 smiling face with open hands in Emoji 1.0 (2015), filed under Smileys & Emotion → With Hands. Its codepoint is U+1F917, and it is tagged face, hands and hug.
What 🤗 smiling face with open hands means
Hands over the mouth do the work of a stage whisper - gasping at gossip, covering a laugh, or admitting something you probably should not have said. 🤔 has drifted from genuine deliberation into pointed skepticism, the emoji equivalent of a slow blink. 🫢 and 🫣, added in 2021, cover the peeking-through-fingers reaction that older faces could not.
Unicode tags this one face, hands and hug and files it under Smileys & Emotion → With Hands.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F917 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🤗 | |
| HTML decimal | 🤗 | |
| CSS | \1F917 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F917} | |
| Python | \U0001F917 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD17 | |
| Rust | \u{1f917} | |
| Swift | \u{1F917} | |
| PHP | \u{1F917} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A4%97 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 97 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD17 | |
| Base64 | 8J+klw== | |
| Decimal | 129303 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🤗
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “smiling face with open hands”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “face”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f917and 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 🤗 smiling face with open hands emoji mean?+
🤗 is the smiling face with open hands emoji, tagged face, hands and hug. Hands over the mouth do the work of a stage whisper - gasping at gossip, covering a laugh, or admitting something you probably should not have said. 🤔 has drifted from genuine deliberation into pointed skepticism, the emoji equivalent of a slow blink. 🫢 and 🫣, added in 2021, cover the peeking-through-fingers reaction that older faces could not.
What is the Unicode code for 🤗?+
smiling face with open hands is U+1F917. In HTML that is 🤗, in CSS \1F917, and in JavaScript \u{1F917}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🤗 emoji added?+
smiling face with open hands got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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.
Related emojis
More emojis from With Hands in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🤗 smiling face with open hands.