🙏 "folded hands" emoji (copy and paste)
folded hands
Two hands placed firmly together, meaning please or thank you in Japanese culture. A common alternative use is for prayer, using the same gesture as praying hands. It can also represent a respectful greeting or show of adoration in Southeast Asian religions and cultures, such as the Hindu namaste or Buddhist añjali mudra. Rarely used as a high-five.
Meaning of the folded hands Emoji
Represents a gesture of please, thank you, prayer, or respectful greeting in Japanese and Southeast Asian cultures, including the Hindu namaste or Buddhist añjali mudra. It may also convey adoration or gratitude and is rarely used as a high-five. This emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name 'Person with Folded Hands' and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Usage Examples
- Please help me with this 🙏
- Thank you so much 🙏
- Praying for good news 🙏
- Namaste 🙏
- Expressing gratitude 🙏
Alternative Names
person with folded hands, praying hands, namaste, añjali mudra
Related Word Associations
prayer, please, thank you, namaste, añjali mudra, gratitude, respect
Appearance in OpenMoji
Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 🙏 folded hands emoji for cross-platform use:
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Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+1F64F
- Version:
- Emoji E0.6
Developer Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :pray: |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :pray: |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :pray: |
| HTML Dec | 🙏 |
| HTML Hex | 🙏 |
| CSS | \01F64F |
| C, C++ & Python | \U0001F64F |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83D\uDE4F |
| Perl | \x{1F64F} |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F64F} |
| Punycode | xn--9q8h |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%99%8F |
| Unicode 6.0 (2010), Emoji 1.0 (2015). | |
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