U+1F64F U+1F3FE
🙏🏾 Folded hands: medium-dark skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- Two-Hand Gestures
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 8.0 (2015)
- Emoji version
- 1.0 (2015)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the 🙏🏾 emoji means
Two palms pressed together. Read as prayer in the West, as thanks or a plea in Japan — where it was designed — and often simply as «please» or «thank you» in everyday chat.
A polite way to ask for a favour or acknowledge one. It is not a high five, despite a persistent myth to the contrary.
Chat examples
What 🙏🏾 is made of
This symbol is written with several code points rather than one. Here is what stands behind it, in order.
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🙏
folded hands
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🏾
skin tone
U+1F3FE
Will your readers see 🙏🏾
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 🙏🏾 emoji is used
The 🙏🏾 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how folded hands: medium-dark skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 🙏🏾 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
Unicode CLDR 48