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🙏Folded Hands Emoji
Unicode added 🙏 folded hands in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under People & Body → Hands. Its codepoint is U+1F64F, and it is tagged appreciate, ask and beg.
What 🙏 folded hands means
Two-handed gestures, mostly generous ones: applause, celebration, gratitude, care. 🙏 is the most argued-over emoji here - Unicode names it folded hands and most people read it as prayer or thank you, though the high-five reading has never quite died. 🫶 heart hands only arrived in 2021, long after the gesture became standard in selfies.
Unicode tags this one appreciate, ask and beg and files it under People & Body → Hands.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F64F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🙏 | |
| HTML decimal | 🙏 | |
| CSS | \1F64F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F64F} | |
| Python | \U0001F64F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE4F | |
| Rust | \u{1f64f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F64F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F64F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%99%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 99 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE4F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Zjw== | |
| Decimal | 128591 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🙏 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🙏
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “folded hands”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “appreciate”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f64fand Enter. - HTML — paste
🙏.
How 🙏 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🙏Apple
- 🙏Segoe
- 🙏Noto
- 🙏System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🙏 folded hands emoji mean?+
🙏 is the folded hands emoji, tagged appreciate, ask and beg. Two-handed gestures, mostly generous ones: applause, celebration, gratitude, care. 🙏 is the most argued-over emoji here - Unicode names it folded hands and most people read it as prayer or thank you, though the high-five reading has never quite died. 🫶 heart hands only arrived in 2021, long after the gesture became standard in selfies.
What is the Unicode code for 🙏?+
folded hands is U+1F64F. In HTML that is 🙏, in CSS \1F64F, and in JavaScript \u{1F64F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🙏 emoji added?+
folded hands got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Hands in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🙏 folded hands.