Folded Hands emoji

What 🙏 means

Folded hands does triple duty: thank you, please, and hoping hard. Some read it as a high five, and the debate itself is part of its charm. In work chats it is the polite way to ask for a review.

If you are trying to read into it

Folded hands mean thank you, please, or hoping hard. A long-running debate says it is a high five, and that debate is now part of the emoji. In work chats it is the polite way to ask someone for a review. It carries genuine religious meaning for some senders, so it is worth not assuming which one you are receiving.

How to type 🙏 without a picker

With Emoji Anywhere installed, type :fold in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 🙏 from the suggestion that appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.

Skin tones for 🙏

Folded Hands comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 🙏 in the popup for a one-off variant.

🙏 in HTML, CSS and code

Folded Hands is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.

Unicode

U+1F64F

HTML

🙏

JavaScript

'\u{1F64F}'

CSS content

"\1F64F"

Python

'\U0001F64F'

URL-encoded

%F0%9F%99%8F

Related emojis

All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .