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Open hands

The open hands emoji shows two hands of any skin tone palms out and thumbs together in a gesture of openness. These hands could mean you’re ready to go in for a hug, or you accept someone just the way they are, like when your friend tells you they don’t like pickles but you love pickles, and you’re like, “I love you anyway.”

Keywords: hand, open, open hands
Codepoints: 1F450
Introduced: October, 2010 in Unicode version 6.0.0 (Emoji version 0.6)
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