Keyword
hug emoji
8 emoji are annotated with “hug” in Unicode’s CLDR data.
- smiling face with open handssmiling face with open hands
- open handsopen hands
- open hands: light skin toneopen hands: light skin tone
- open hands: medium-light skin toneopen hands: medium-light skin tone
- open hands: medium skin toneopen hands: medium skin tone
- open hands: medium-dark skin toneopen hands: medium-dark skin tone
- open hands: dark skin toneopen hands: dark skin tone
- people huggingpeople hugging
Frequently asked questions
- How many emoji mean hug?
- 8 emoji are annotated with “hug”.
- Which categories does hug span?
- Emoji annotated “hug” appear in Smileys & Emotion and People & Body. A keyword is the only grouping here that crosses categories — the Unicode taxonomy files each character in exactly one.
- Which emoji are tagged hug?
- They include 🤗 smiling face with open hands, 👐 open hands, 👐🏻 open hands: light skin tone and 👐🏼 open hands: medium-light skin tone. The full set is listed above.
- Where do these keywords come from?
- Unicode’s CLDR annotation data, which is the same source that lets an emoji keyboard find a character by name. They are not tags anyone here invented.