The people hugging emoji shows two abstractly depicted human people hugging each other. The left person is shown in a dark blue and the right person is shown in a light blue. The depicted people are only visible up to about the waist.
The People hugging emoji was accepted for Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to emoji version 13.0 in 2020 under the People & Body category.
The alternative names of People Hugging emoji are Hug Emoji, Warmth Emoji, Friendship Emoji, Thankful Emoji and many more.