🤗 Smiling Face with Open Hands Emoji

Copy and paste the Smiling Face with Open Hands emoji (🤗) instantly. View its meaning in Smileys & Emotion, modern texting slang, chat examples, and Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015) developer codes (U+1F917).

What Does the Smiling Face with Open Hands Emoji Mean?

Unicode Definition: Illustrates smiling face with open hands (🤗), officially cataloged under Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015) (U+1F917) in the "face-hand" subgroup. Features bright, symmetrical smiling contours designed to convey approachable digital friendliness.

Context & Expression: Radiates warmth, positive goodwill, pleasant humor, and open conversational energy.

Tone Tip: Smiling Face with Open Hands (🤗) sets a welcoming, upbeat tone in short text messages that might otherwise read as abrupt.

Modern Texting & Social Usage

The quintessential everyday polite reaction—used across emails, iMessage, and Slack to make digital correspondence feel friendly, human, and encouraging.

💡 Quick Usage Tip:

Combine 🤗 with complementary symbols or text labels to make social captions, Slack statuses, and threads immediately scannable.

Real-Life Chat Examples

See how the Smiling Face with Open Hands emoji looks in everyday mobile messaging.

Alex

Hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead! Any fun plans?

You

Heading outdoors for a trail hike with friends! 🤗

Alex

Sounds fantastic, enjoy the fresh air!

When to Use 🤗

Softening short messages so they read as friendly rather than terse.
Greeting teammates or signing off on friendly check-ins.
Sharing positive updates and cheerful everyday news.

When to Avoid 🤗

Solemn or critical feedback sessions where smiles could look sarcastic.
Formal legal or compliance declarations.

CROSS-PLATFORM DISPLAY

How Smiling Face with Open Hands Looks Across Operating Systems & Fonts

Apple iOS renders 🤗 with smooth 3D gradients and glossy eye highlights; Google Android uses a vibrant flat-shaded vector style; Samsung One UI features highly expressive brow curves; Microsoft Windows uses a bold outlined Fluent aesthetic.

🤗

Apple iOS / macOS Rendering

High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting

System Font: 'Apple Color Emoji'

Platform / Vendor	Glyph Preview	System Emoji Font	Rendering Behavior
Apple iOS / macOS	🤗	`Apple Color Emoji`	High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting
Google Android	🤗	`Noto Color Emoji`	Clean, rounded Noto Color Emoji vector geometry
Samsung One UI	🤗	`Samsung Color Emoji`	Vibrant high-contrast One UI color styling
Microsoft Windows	🤗	`Segoe UI Emoji`	Fluent Design 3D shading (renders 2-letter ISO codes for country flags)
X / Discord (Twemoji)	🤗	`Twitter Color Emoji`	Flat minimalist Twemoji SVG iconography

Technical & Developer Specifications

Verified Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS/JS escapes, UTF-8 bytes, and version data.

Character	🤗
Official Unicode Name	Smiling Face with Open Hands
Unicode Code Point	`U+1F917`
HTML Decimal Entity	`🤗`
HTML Hex Entity	`🤗`
CSS Escape Code	`\01F917`
JavaScript / ES6 Escape	`\u{1F917}`
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	`F0 9F A4 97`
Shortcode (Slack / Discord / GitHub)	`:smiling_face_with_open_hands:`
Emoji / Unicode Version	Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015)
Category & Subgroup	Smileys & Emotion (special)

Frequently Asked Questions About Smiling Face with Open Hands (🤗)

Quick answers about meaning, OS rendering, and developer escape codes.

What is the emotional and conversational meaning of Smiling Face with Open Hands (🤗)?

Radiates warmth, positive goodwill, pleasant humor, and open conversational energy. It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion category and was standardized in Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015).

How is the Smiling Face with Open Hands emoji (🤗) used on TikTok, Instagram, and Discord?

The quintessential everyday polite reaction—used across emails, iMessage, and Slack to make digital correspondence feel friendly, human, and encouraging.

How do I copy and paste 🤗 on iPhone, Android, Mac, or Windows?

Click the "Copy Emoji (🤗)" button at the top of this page to copy the character to your clipboard, then press Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux), Cmd+V (macOS), or long-press Paste (iOS/Android) in any app.

What are the Unicode, HTML, CSS, and JS developer codes for Smiling Face with Open Hands?

The Unicode code point is U+1F917 (Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015)). In HTML use 🤗 or 🤗; in CSS pseudo-elements use content: "\01F917"; in JavaScript use "\u{1F917}"; and in Slack/Discord/GitHub use shortcode :smiling_face_with_open_hands:.

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