The folded hands: medium skin tone emoji is the universal "please/thank you/amen/namaste" button, sent with a calm tan glow. It covers grateful DMs, humble requests, sincere apologies, and the classic "sending prayers" vibe—plus the occasional chaotic "pls universe, make rent due disappear" text. People also toss it in sarcastically to punctuate a dramatic meme or when they’re manifesting that email reply. High-five truthers exist, but most folks read it as respect and gratitude, not a slap.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll see two medium‑tan hands pressed together, fingers straight with rounded tips, thumbs side-by-side, and blue shirt cuffs at the wrists. The shading is soft and slightly 3D, giving a clean, front-facing pose that looks like a calm, centered pause. Culturally, it echoes India’s namaste and Japan’s hands‑together moment before a meal or the anime-style “gomen” apology, which is why it reads as polite across timelines. Online, it doubles as a supportive reaction in comments, a respectful salute to good news, or a gentle "I beg" in group chats—sincere, wholesome, or playfully dramatic as needed.
The Person with Folded Hands emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1983 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | Olive Toned 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F64F, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128591, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x8F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 8F, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 217, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE4F, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde4f, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56911, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F64F 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F64F, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128591, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F64F\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x8f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE4F\uD83C\uDFFD" |
