Folded hands

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Shortcode: :pray:
Shortcode: :folded_hands:
Unicode: U+1F64F
HTML: 🙏
CSS: \1F64F
JavaScript: "\u{1F64F}"
URL: %F0%9F%99%8F

appreciate ask beg blessed bow cmon five folded gesture hand high please pray thanks thx

What 🙏 means

Two hands pressed together: please, thank you, or a prayer. In South Asia it also reads as namaste, a respectful greeting or goodbye.

People send it to beg a favor (“please please 🙏”), to thank someone sincerely, or to offer hopes and prayers after bad news. In Japan the same gesture says please or thanks, and in yoga and wellness posts it stands for namaste.

Some see a high five here, but nearly everyone reads it as prayer or gratitude.

Facts

Folded hands 🙏 is an emoji in the people and body category, under hands. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :pray: or :folded_hands:. People also look for it with words like “appreciate”, “ask”, “beg”, or “blessed”.