The folded hands emoji shows two hands pressed together, echoing a namaste or prayer gesture. Its meaning splits by context: it can express "please" or heartfelt thanks, or serve as a literal prayer or blessing, and it commonly closes out messages asking for luck, help, or gratitude.
What 🙏 means
Two hands (either from the same person or two people) coming together in a fold, or in other words, a 'Namaste', thus symbolizing gratitude and warmth.
Apart from offering a sense of welcoming someone or something, the 🙏 Folded Hands emoji can also suggest an apology, modesty, and humbleness too. It is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.
How and when to use it
- If your friend did carry out something that you wanted him/her to, send 🙏 and a gratitude-filled message to thank him/her.
- If you're sending a post, message, link, anything and you want your receivers to share it and spread the love, send along the 🙏 emoji.
- In some very rare scenarios, you can also use 🙏 as a high-five (come to think of it, it does look like it).
- 🙏 is also a great way to show appreciation and gratitude to something inspiring that you came across on social media.
- If you're welcoming someone onto a group channel, you can use 🙏 in the Indian way of saying 'Namaste' or 'Welcome', in other words.
- If you want your buddy to do you a favor, like pick up your clothes from the laundry or look after your dog while you're out, send 🙏 as a way of begging him/her.
Other Names
- 🙏 Grateful
- 🙏 Gratitude
- 🙏 Thank You
- 🙏 Thanks
- 🙏 Please
- 🙏 Namaste
- 🙏 Welcome
- 🙏 Prayer
- 🙏 Praying
- 🙏 Hope
- 🙏 Apology
- 🙏 I'm Sorry
- 🙏 Sorry
- 🙏 Greeting
- 🙏 Hello
- 🙏 Hi
🙏 in real conversations
What does 🙏 mean from a girl?
Thank you, please, or genuine “praying for you” support, depending on what it's attached to. Gratitude is the most common read.
What does 🙏 mean from a guy?
“Bless,” “thanks man,” or exaggerated begging — “🙏🙏🙏 cover my shift.” Rarely literal prayer, though it can be sincere in heavy moments.
What does 🙏 mean in texting?
Thanks, please, or hope. And yes — it's officially folded hands. The high-five reading is a running joke the internet refuses to retire.
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › hands
- Codepoints
U+1F64F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:pray::folded_hands:Discord- Keywords
- appreciate, ask, beg, blessed, bow, cmon, five, folded, gesture, hand, high, please, pray, thanks, thx
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Skin tone variations
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🙏 Folded Hands or 🤷♂️ Man Shrugging?
Runs with a crowd
🙏 keeps company in chuseok emojis and eid al-fitr emojis and ganesh chaturthi emojis and guru nanak jayanti emojis and hand emojis and krishna janmashtami emojis and raksha bandhan emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.