The folded hands: medium-dark skin tone emoji (๐๐พ) is your go-to for gratitude, respect, and earnest please-and-thank-yous. Think prayer, Namaste, or that classic "pretty please" energy. It reads as sincere, humble, and appreciative, whether youโre thanking a friend for notes, asking your manager for Friday off, or signing off a heartfelt message. The medium-dark skin tone grounds it with a warm brown shade that reflects real-world diversity.
Online, it does everything from "amen" to "manifesting the WiโFi" to the tongue-in-cheek "thoughts and prayers" meme. People use it for "prayer circle" posts about exam scores, playoff games, or TV show renewals, and for soft-pleading vibes in DMs. Thereโs also the long-running high-five vs. prayer jokeโyes, it looks like a high five if you squint, but the mood is definitely palms-together respect. In South Asian contexts it often reads as Namaste; in Japan it can echo a gasshล-style apology or polite request.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji shows two symmetrical hands pressed flat, thumbs parallel, fingers aligned, seen straight-on with smooth shading and subtle highlights. The medium-dark tone gives the palms a rich brown gradient, and the wrists end in simple blue-toned cuffsโa tiny, familiar detail people clock instantly. No sparkles, no haloโjust calm, centered palms that whisper "please" and "thank you" in emoji.
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 Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
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| 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) | ๐๐พ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐พ |
| 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" |
