🤗 Smiling Face with Open Hands

🤗 Smiling Face with Open Hands reaches out with both hands. It is the closest thing to a hug that text has, and it is used for comfort, thanks and welcome in roughly equal measure.

A second, more recent reading has appeared: paired with a mischievous sentence it can look like jazz hands, presenting something with a flourish.

Reliable for showing support without words. If someone has had bad news, 🫂 is the more clearly comforting choice.

• Sending you a hug 🤗
• Come in, sit down 🤗

• 🤗🫢 – Smiling Face with Open Hands and Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth
• 🤗🤔 – Smiling Face with Open Hands with Thinking Face
• 🤗🤫 – Smiling Face with Open Hands plus Shushing Face
• 🤗🫣 – Smiling Face with Open Hands and Face with Peeking Eye
• 🤗🤭 – Smiling Face with Open Hands with Face with Hand Over Mouth
• 🤗🫡 – Smiling Face with Open Hands plus Saluting Face

Easy to mix up with 🫢 Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth, 🤔 Thinking Face or 🤫 Shushing Face. They look alike but do not mean the same thing – when in doubt, check the name.