People & Body · Emoji 0.6
🙏Folded Hands Emoji
Generally, it means “thank you” or “please.” People use it to show they appreciate something, whether it’s a kind gesture or a helpful message.
Also searched as praying hands emoji.
The 🙏 emoji shows two hands folded together.
- Unicode
- U+1F64F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :pray:
- Skin tones
- Yes
- Popularity
- #6 most used
01 — Meaning
What does the 🙏 Folded Hands emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as thanks emoji, beg emoji, praying hands emoji, prayer hand emoji, praying emoji.
02 — Platforms
Folded Hands emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the folded hands has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Folded Hands emoji skin tones
🙏 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Folded Hands emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :pray:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F64F.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🙏 Folded Hands emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F64F when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Folded Hands emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
07 — Combinations
Folded Hands emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around folded hands for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🙏, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
09 — In conversation
What 🙏 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
10 — Apps
What 🙏 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F64F, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — History
Where the 🙏 Folded Hands emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F64F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🙏 existed there as
KDDI au EAD2, SoftBank E41D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Folded Hands was approved as U+1F64F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🙏 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ