hug

form of endearment, universal in human communities, in which two or more people put their arms around the neck, back, or waist of one another and hold each other closely
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hug

Summary

hug ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (778 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • hug's image is recorded as ΠžΠ±ΡŠΡΡ‚ΠΈΡ.jpg[2].
  • hug's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85062802[3].
  • hug's BibliothΓ¨que nationale de France ID is recorded as 124330621[4].
  • hug's subclass of is recorded as physical intimacy[5].
  • hug's subclass of is recorded as bodily contact[6].
  • hug's has use is recorded as platonic love[7].
  • hug's has use is recorded as friendship[8].
  • hug's Commons category is recorded as Hugging[9].
  • hug's said to be the same as is recorded as cuddling[10].
  • hug's Unicode character is recorded as πŸ€—[11].
  • hug's Unicode character is recorded as πŸ«‚[12].
  • hug's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 56636[13].
  • hug's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025s9qt[14].
  • hug's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph207544[15].
  • hug's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hugging[16].
  • hug's Commons gallery is recorded as Hug[17].
  • hug's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX5807649[18].
  • hug's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 395896[19].
  • hug's BBC Things ID is recorded as 51a7eb03-c117-419f-8e1b-f4853de6d6c5[20].
  • hug's different from is recorded as Hug[21].
  • hug's EAGLE id is recorded as decor/lod/16[22].
  • hug's Discogs artist ID is recorded as 2092567[23].
  • hug's hashtag is recorded as hug[24].
  • hug's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00019811n[25].
  • hug's Quora topic ID is recorded as Hugging[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for hug include National Hug Day[27], an awareness day[28], in United States[29], founded in 1986[30].

Why It Matters

hug ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (778 views/month).[1] hug has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] hug is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for hug include National Hug Day[27], an awareness day[28], in United States[29], founded in 1986[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. β†’ on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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