This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F917 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “smiling face with open hands” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: face, hands, hug, hugging, open, smiling.
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.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A hug is a form of endearment, found in virtually all human communities, in which two or more people put their arms around the neck, back, under the arm-pits or waists of one another and hold each other closely. If more than two people are involved, it may be referred to as a group hug.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
129303
UTF-8
F0 9F A4 97
UTF-16
D8 3E DD 17
UTF-32
00 01 F9 17
URL-Quoted
%F0%9F%A4%97
HTML hex reference
🤗
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
🤗
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
95 30 CD 37
RFC 5137
\u'1F917'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\U0001F917
C and C++
\U0001F917
C#
\U0001F917
CSS
\01F917
Excel
=UNICHAR(129303)
Go
\U0001F917
JavaScript
\uD83E\uDD17
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{1f917}
JSON
\uD83E\uDD17
Java
\uD83E\uDD17
Lua
\u{1F917}
Matlab
char(129303)
Perl
"\x{1F917}"
PHP
\u{1f917}
PostgreSQL
U&'\+01F917'
PowerShell
`u{1F917}
Python
\U0001F917
Ruby
\u{1f917}
Rust
\u{1f917}
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