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Palms Up Together Emoji 🤲

Two cupped palms pressed together and facing up, the palms-up-together emoji depicts the gesture of offering or receiving. Hands held out this way give, ask, or pray, and it's used for religious supplication, including the Islamic gesture of dua, as well as a general 'please' or 'here, take this.'

What 🤲 means

Both palms held together, making a slight cup-like shape. This emoji signifies prayer, reverence, worship, calm, and even asking for something from the divine or universal force (popular belief).

The 🤲 Palms Up Together can also mean an open book, thus meaning openness, transparency, and honesty. It is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.

How and when to use it

If your buddy is taking a huge step at something in her/his life and is asking you to pray for the best, you can send in this 🤲 emoji.
If you're the one praying or hoping for something, use 🤲.
🤲 can also be used to express that you're an open book and have nothing to hide.
If your caption is about being blessed, having faith, believing, etc, use 🤲 to enhance that particular emotion.
Send 🤲 if you're trying to tell someone younger or even your age to STFU and study for their exams, or prepare for something at school.
Use 🤲 if you're busy doing academic work.

Other Names

🤲 Prayer
🤲 Dua
🤲 Pray
🤲 Hope
🤲 Faith
🤲 Believe
🤲 Focus
🤲 Openness
🤲 Reading
🤲 Truthfulness
🤲 Honesty
🤲 Transparency
🤲 Ask for Something
🤲 Begging

🤲 in real conversations

What does 🤲 mean in texting?

Open, upturned palms — asking for something, offering something, or hoping good news lands in your hands. "Send good vibes 🤲" is a request; "here you go 🤲" is an offering. Either way, the hands are held open, not clasped shut like a regular prayer emoji.

What does 🤲 mean in Islam?

It's the gesture used for dua, the raised, cupped hands held open during personal prayer and supplication. Outside religious contexts the same shape gets read more loosely as "please" or "I hope," but the prayer association is real and specific, not just a texting invention.

Is 🤲 different from 🙏?

Yes — 🙏 shows two hands pressed flat together, read as thanks, a high five, or general prayer, while 🤲 shows two separate palms held open and cupped upward, the dua posture. They get confused constantly, but the open-palm gap in 🤲 is the giveaway.

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › hands
Codepoints: U+1F932
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :palms_up_together:
Keywords: cupped, dua, hands, palms, pray, prayer, together, up, wish

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.