U+1F917 "🤗" Hugging Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🤗
U+1F917 "🤗" Hugging Face is a smiling yellow face with two open hands positioned as if offering a warm embrace, commonly used to express affection, gratitude, comfort, or excitement in digital communication. Originally intended to convey a hug, it is also widely interpreted as a gesture of welcome, joy, or heartfelt thanks. This emoji belongs to the Smileys & Emotion category and was added to Unicode 8.0 in 2015, quickly becoming a popular symbol of positive emotional connection across messaging platforms and social media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F917 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Hugging Face |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🤗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🤗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F917 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd17 |