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folded hands emoji (Twemoji design)

🙏 Folded hands emoji

Meaning

Please, thank you or prayer. Some read it as a high-five, but the Unicode name is simply “folded hands”.

Its official Unicode name is folded hands, filed under hands in the people & body group. Keyboards find it when you search for “appreciate”, “ask”, “beg”, “blessed”, “bow”, “cmon”. It supports five skin-tone variants.

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What does the folded hands emoji mean?

Please, thank you or prayer. Some read it as a high-five, but the Unicode name is simply “folded hands”.

How do I copy and paste the folded hands emoji?

Tap the Copy button on this page and paste 🙏 anywhere. On a keyboard, search your emoji panel for “appreciate”.

When was the folded hands emoji added?

It arrived in Emoji 0.6, part of the original set carried over from Japanese phone carriers. Support depends on your phone’s software version.