U+1F917 Hugging Face

U+1F917 was added to Unicode in version 8.0 (2015). It belongs to the block U+1F900 to U+1F9FF Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F917 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “smiling face with open hands” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: face, hug, hugging, open hands, smiling face, smiling face with open hands.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🤗︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.