Folded Hands emoji 🙏: meaning and how to use it
🙏 — two hands pressed together — is one of the most flexible emoji. It means please, thank you, prayer, hope or gratitude depending on context, and a few people even read it as a high five.
:pray:What does the Folded Hands emoji mean?
The folded hands most commonly express “please” or “thank you” and gratitude — a small bow of appreciation. It's also widely used for prayer, hope and blessings (“sending 🙏”).
There's a long-running debate about whether it's praying hands or a high five. Its official name is “folded hands,” and prayer/thanks is the mainstream reading — but the playful “high five” interpretation persists.
How the emoji is used
- Saying please or thank you
- Prayer, hope or condolences: “🙏 for you”
- Gratitude and appreciation
- Requesting a favor politely
Folded Hands emoji: Unicode details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Emoji | 🙏 |
| Unicode code point(s) | U+1F64F |
| Unicode name(s) | Person With Folded Hands |
| Shortcode | :pray: |
| HTML entity | 🙏 |
| Category | Emoji |
Because it is defined in Unicode, this emoji works across phones, laptops and the web — though the exact artwork differs by platform (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and Twemoji all draw it in their own style). The underlying meaning stays the same everywhere.
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What does 🙏 mean?
It means please, thank you, prayer, hope or gratitude depending on context. Officially it's “folded hands”; some people also read it as a high five.
How do I type the folded hands emoji?
On most keyboards, open the emoji picker (Windows: Win + ., Mac: Ctrl + Cmd + Space, iPhone/Android: the 😀 key) and search its name. Or just copy it from the button at the top of this page.
What is the shortcode for 🙏?
The common shortcode is :pray:, used on Slack, Discord, GitHub and many other apps that turn :name: into an emoji.