Folded Hands Emoji
Copy 🙏 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 🙏 mean?
Two hands pressed together. Read as prayer, as thanks, as a plea, or as a namaste greeting depending on culture and context.
🙏 is the folded hands emoji. It belongs to the People & Body group, in the hands set, and was approved as part of Emoji 0.6.
People also search for it as appreciate, ask, beg, blessed, bow, cmon, five, folded, gesture, hand.
How to use 🙏
Used for gratitude (“thank you so much 🙏”), for hope (“🙏 for good news”), and in religious contexts. In parts of Asia it primarily reads as a greeting or a mark of respect.
Click the copy button above to put 🙏 on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :pray: directly.
Good to know
A persistent myth calls this a high five. It is not — the Unicode name is “folded hands”, and no major platform has ever designed it as two separate people.
Skin tone variants
Folded Hands supports 5 skin tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Technical details
| Name | Folded Hands |
|---|---|
| Character | 🙏 |
| Codepoint | U+1F64F |
| HTML entity | 🙏 |
| CSS code | \1F64F |
| Shortcode | :pray: |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subgroup | hands |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | appreciate, ask, beg, blessed, bow, cmon, five, folded, gesture, hand, high, please, pray, thanks, thx |