Folded Hands: Medium Skin Tone

🙏🏽 is the medium skin tone version of 🙏 Folded Hands. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them. 🙏 is folded hands. It means please, thank you or prayer; in Japan it can also mean an apology. It is not a high five.

See the default 🙏 Folded Hands emoji and all skin tones

Skin tones

Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.

folded hands

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

Tone

GratefulIt reads as thanks, a request or prayer — and an apology in Japan.DBEmoji editorial interpretation

Common uses

DBEmoji editorial interpretation

Saying please or thank you
Prayers and well-wishes

Easy to misread

DBEmoji editorial interpretation

Often read as prayer or thanks; in Japan it also reads as please or sorry. The “high five” reading is a popular myth, not the Unicode intent — the official name is folded hands.

Technical details

Source: Unicode Consortium

CLDR short name: folded hands: medium skin tone
Codepoint: U+1F64F U+1F3FD
Hex: 1F64F 1F3FD
Emoji version: 1.0
Unicode version: 8.0
First released: 2015
Unicode group: People & Body
Unicode subgroup: hands
Skin tone: medium
Status: Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)

Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built

Keywords

Source: Unicode CLDR

appreciate · ask · beg · blessed · bow · cmon · five · folded · gesture · hand · high · medium skin tone · please · pray · thanks · thx

How it looks

Folded Hands: Medium Skin Tone — Fluent 3D — Fluent 3D

Folded Hands: Medium Skin Tone — Fluent Color — Fluent Color

Folded Hands: Medium Skin Tone — Fluent Flat — Fluent Flat

Your device

Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)

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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork

Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of 🙏🏽. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.

Questions people ask

What does the 🙏🏽 folded hands: medium skin tone emoji mean?: 🙏🏽 is the medium skin tone version of 🙏 Folded Hands. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them. 🙏 is folded hands. It means please, thank you or prayer; in Japan it can also mean an apology. It is not a high five.
What is the Unicode codepoint for 🙏🏽?: U+1F64F U+1F3FD.
When was the 🙏🏽 folded hands: medium skin tone emoji released?: It was added in Emoji 1.0, published in 2015, alongside Unicode 8.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
How do I type 🙏🏽 on my phone or computer?: On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “folded hands”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🙏🏽 from this page with one click.
Is 🙏🏽 ever misunderstood?: Often read as prayer or thanks; in Japan it also reads as please or sorry. The “high five” reading is a popular myth, not the Unicode intent — the official name is folded hands.