🙏 Meaning – Folded Hands Emoji

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This emoji can represent prayer or a person saying «please» or «thank you». Sometimes it's interpreted as a «high five». Also may indicate sorrow, regret or pleading. Praying Hands Emoji meaning may vary in Japanese and Western cultures.

The Folded Hands Emoji appeared in 2010, and now is mainly known as the Praying Hands Emoji, but also may be reffered as the Thank You Emoji. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Pray Emoji.

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Praying Hands Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F64F
Unicode name: Folded Hands
Category: Smileys & People / Body
Keywords: ask, hand, please, pray, thanks, body, bow, folded, gesture, meditation
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F64F
Decimal HTML Entity: 🙏
Hex HTML Entity: 🙏
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDE4F
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

🙏 emoji variants

Folded Hands: Light Skin Tone

Folded Hands: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Folded Hands: Medium Skin Tone

Folded Hands: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Folded Hands: Dark Skin Tone

Raised Fist

Hand with Fingers Splayed

Person Raising Hand

Raised Back of Hand

Person Gesturing No

Man and Woman Holding Hands

Person Tipping Hand

Writing Hand

Thumbs Down

Two Women Holding Hands

Two Men Holding Hands

Face with Hand Over Mouth

Love-You Gesture

Person Gesturing Ok

Gloves

🌐 Praying Hands Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	betende Hände	beten, bitte, Gebet
Français	mains en prière	mains, prière
Русский	сложенные руки	молитва, пожалуйста, просьба, руки, умолять
Español	manos en oración	mano, oración, orar, rezar
Italiano	mani giunte	gesto, mano, pregare, preghiera
Português	mãos juntas	gesto, mão, reza, rezando, rezar
Polski	złożone ręce	modlitwa, prosić

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How to type Folded Hands Emoji

There are number of methods to type Praying Hands Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🙏 emoji

It's very easy to get Folded Hands Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🙏 meaning and look at 🙏 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

🙏 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.