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🙏 Praying Hands
Official name: Folded Hands.
Also searched as: please, thank you.
- Emoji
- 🙏
- Unicode
- U+1F64F
- Shortcode
- :pray:
- HTML code
- 🙏
- Approved in
- Unicode 6.0 (2010)
- Category
- People & Body
What does the 🙏 emoji mean?
Folded hands, widely known as praying hands. It can mean 'please', 'thank you' or praying, depending on culture and context. Some also read it as a high five.
Keywords: appreciate, ask, beg, blessed, bow, cmon, five, folded, gesture, hand, high, please, pray, thanks, thx.
Featured in: Hand emojis and gestures.
How 🙏 looks on each platform
Every company draws its own version of the same emoji.
Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp designs are copyrighted by each company, so we don't publish them as images. Open this page on an iPhone and the “Your device” box shows Apple's version; on a Samsung Galaxy, Samsung's.
Skin tones
How to type 🙏 on your keyboard
| iPhone | Open the keyboard, tap the emoji button 😀 and type “praying hands” in “Search Emoji”. |
|---|---|
| Android | On Gboard or the Samsung keyboard, tap the emoji icon and search “praying hands”. |
| Windows | Press Windows + . (period) and type “praying hands”. |
| Mac | Press Control + Command + Space and search “praying hands”. |
| Discord, Slack, GitHub | Type :pray: |
🙏 emoji codes
| Official Unicode name | folded hands |
|---|---|
| Code points | U+1F64F |
| HTML decimal | 🙏 |
| HTML hex | 🙏 |
| CSS | \1F64F |
| JavaScript | \u{1F64F} |
| Shortcode | :pray: |
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See People & BodyFrequently asked questions
What does the 🙏 emoji mean?
Folded hands, widely known as praying hands. It can mean 'please', 'thank you' or praying, depending on culture and context. Some also read it as a high five.
How do I copy and paste the praying hands emoji?
Tap Copy emoji on this page and paste it anywhere: WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, an email or a document. You can also find it on your phone's emoji keyboard by searching “praying hands”.
When was the 🙏 emoji released?
It was approved in Unicode 6.0, in 2010. Today it works on practically every phone and computer.
Does the 🙏 emoji have skin tones?
Yes, it has 5 skin tone variants. You can copy all of them in the “Skin tones” section of this page.