How are we supposed to find out what the emotion icon with the two hands underneath the face is supposed to mean?
I mean it looks like a pleasant icon, but without any words explaining it, for instance during a long press, we might end up expressing the wrong emotion!
Itâs a hug:
Explanations display with mouse over:
Thank you very much. I would have never guessed!
Okay thatâs great that the mouse will show it. Except Iâm using a Android cell phone. How can I see the explanation with my cell phone? Thanks. Why canât long press show it?
Longpress does show it. The text at the top is exactly the same as on desktop.
But I donât think this is that helpful. What does it help you to know that 
is explained as eyes? This is rather the name than the meaning of the emoji. When someone reacts to your post with eyes, that could mean âIâll take a look.â However, Emojipedia states:
Sometimes used to indicate âpervy eyesâ to indicate approval of an attractive photo posted online; or âshifty eyesâ to convey a deceitful act.
How do we know what the person who reacted really meant? It depends on the context. I donât think showing the name in the UX would help to understand the meaning.
This can be a challenge to understand what someone means with an emoji, for instance one of the other ones they have here at meta is the âChef Kissâ emoji, which I am not sure what that means does anyone know?
Would guess this for a compliment of a recipe or to compliment the picture of a meal someone has shared or something?
On my forum we had longer discuss how people are reading that: 
Well, it varies so much it is actually useless because of that.
And then we have very widely known example: 
It just doesnât matter what hoovering or long presses gives. Definitions will be wrong and/or outdated, or culturally just wrong.
Emoji (y) had very special meaning until Facebook changed it to 
and one has dirtier imagination that joke is hilarious.
Point is⌠we should not try explain emojies ever and textforms are debatable
Emojiâs are based on emotional expression of someoneâs face, if there is no face it is not an emoji. 
OK, I found that leaving the mouse on top of some showed some names. And I thought the âexploding headâ one was wearing the same hat as the âchefâ one.
Anyway, too bad that Discourse wonât let you change the emoji you picked, once, a few days later, you learn what it âreally meantâ!
âThat reaction was created too long ago. It can no longer be modified or removed.â
This seems to be only for a few minutes someone can change their response to a post before it is frozen.
As the name of the emoji doesnât convey the meaning of its use in different situations as itâs very context-dependent, there doesnât seem to be a lot of merit in dedicating any time to making the long-press âshow emoji nameâ work on all mobile devices.
For those situations where youâre unsure, you can look up the emoji in the composerâs emoji picker for the name and/or use something like the Emojipedia site that @Richie linked further up to get much more info on what it is and what itâs commonly used for.
Iâm going to close this topic off as itâs not something weâre looking to work towards.
