On Apple/iOS, the emoji shows two hands pressed together head-on: fingers aligned, thumbs parallel, smooth shading with subtle highlights. The medium-dark modifier renders a rich brown gradient across the palms, and the wrists end in simple blue-toned cuffs—a familiar little touch. No sparkles or halo—just composed, centered hands that quietly say “please” and “thanks.”
Online, it runs the gamut from “amen” to “manifesting the Wi‑Fi,” plus the tongue-in-cheek “thoughts and prayers” meme. You’ll see it in “prayer circle” posts for exam scores, playoff runs, or TV renewals, and for soft-pleading energy in DMs. There’s the perennial high-five vs. prayer joke—sure, it can be misread as a high five, but the intent is palms-together respect. In South Asian contexts it often reads as Namaste; in Japan it can echo a gasshō-style apology or polite request.
At heart, the folded hands: medium-dark skin tone emoji (🙏🏾) is shorthand for gratitude, respect, and earnest please-and-thank-yous—think prayer, Namaste, or that gentle “pretty please” vibe. It comes across as sincere, humble, and appreciative, whether you’re thanking a friend for their notes, asking your manager for Friday off, or signing a heartfelt message. The medium-dark skin tone grounds it in a warm, true-to-life brown that reflects real-world diversity.
The Person with Folded Hands emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2505 of 2393 |
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| 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Deeper Brown Person with Folded Hands |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F64F, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128591, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x8F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 8F, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 217, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE4F, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde4f, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56911, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F64F 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F64F, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128591, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F64F\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x8f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE4F\uD83C\uDFFE" |
