The folded hands: dark skin tone emoji is the internet’s universal gesture for gratitude, respect, and a humble “please and thank you,” with a side of “I’m begging here.” It shows up for prayers, condolences, apologies, and the Namaste greeting, but it also fuels meme-speak like “bless up,” “manifesting,” and the classic “thoughts and prayers” (sometimes sincere, often ironic). There’s a long-running joke that it’s a high five—people still argue about it in the comments—but context usually gives it away.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll see two dark-brown hands pressed together, fingers straight and aligned, thumbs side-by-side, front-facing and centered. The styling is clean and slightly glossy, with soft shading that makes the knuckles and fingertips pop, plus cool-toned cuffs (blue-violet shirt sleeves) peeking at the wrists. No sparkles, no motion lines—just a calm, reverent pose you can spot instantly in your notifications.
In texts and timelines, it’s perfect for “pls professor extend the deadline,” “grandma’s surgery went well,” or “Wi‑Fi, I’m begging you.” It lands earnestly in spiritual posts and yoga captions, but also shines in dramatic or humorous replies—like dropping it under a clutch three-pointer highlight or a flawless recipe video. As the dark skin tone variant, it adds representation and personal identity to the gesture, making your gratitude or plea feel more like you. Occasionally it’s used flirt-adjacent (“respectfully, wow”) or as a polite mic-drop after a spicy take.
The Person with Folded Hands emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3488 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: | Black 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F64F, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128591, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x8F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 8F, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 217, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE4F, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde4f, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56911, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F64F 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F64F, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128591, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F64F\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x8f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE4F\uD83C\uDFFF" |
