Pressed palms, fingers straight, thumbs aligned—this is the classic 🙏 pose, here with a warm medium‑light skin tone that reads like sun‑kissed beige. On Apple/iOS, the two front‑facing hands are cleanly shaded with a soft 3D look, tapered fingertips touching, and those unmistakable blue shirt cuffs peeking in at the wrists—simple, glossy, instantly recognizable. People use it for heartfelt thanks, polite “please,” spiritual vibes, and the global namaste/gasshō gesture; it’s gratitude, respect, and a tiny bow all in one. It also moonlights as the internet’s emergency button: “pls Wi‑Fi,” “manifesting good grades,” or “send prayers, my coffee machine just died.”
Meme lore alert: some folks still call it a high five, which makes for excellent sarcastic replies (“high five to my responsibilities—no thanks”). In DMs and captions it softens the tone—“thanks in advance 🙏,” “sorry for the late reply 🙏,” or a humble brag wrapped in humility. The skin tone choice adds a personal touch, signaling identity and warmth without yelling; it’s like texting with eye contact. From yoga class check‑ins to Sunday service posts to K‑pop comeback wish lists, this emoji carries big “respectful, slightly dramatic, but genuinely sweet” energy.
The Person with Folded Hands emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2192 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Light Brown Person with Folded Hands |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🙏🏼 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🙏🏼 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🙏 🏼 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🙏 🏼 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f64f, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F64F, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128591, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x8F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 8F, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 217, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE4F, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde4f, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56911, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F64F 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F64F, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128591, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F64F\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x8f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE4F\uD83C\uDFFC" |
