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Two hands placed firmly together, meaning please&nbsp;or&nbsp;thank you&nbsp;in Japanese culture.&nbsp;A common alternative use&nbsp;for this emoji is for prayer, using the same gesture as&nbsp;praying hands. It can also represent&nbsp;a respectful greeting or show of adoration many in Southeast Asian religions and cultures, such as the Hindu namaste or Buddhist a&ntilde;jali mudra.

Rarely used as&nbsp;a&nbsp;high-five, despite often being suggested as one by emoji keyboard search features. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojiology-folded-hands/">More about this emoji and its possible meanings</a>.

A previous&nbsp;version of this&nbsp;emoji&nbsp;displayed a <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Apple iOS 6.0">yellow burst of light behind the two hands</a>&nbsp;on iOS. Android once&nbsp;showed a blob-character with <a href="/google/android-5.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Google Android 5.0">closed eyes and folded hands</a>.

Person with Folded Hands

A yellow face with smiling eyes, closed smile, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(religious_iconography)">halo</a>, usually blue, overhead. Often represents angels, <a href="/folded-hands/">prayers</a>, and blessings. May also convey angelic behavior, e.g., doing good deeds. See also <a href="/baby-angel/">👼&nbsp;Baby Angel</a>.

Several platforms, including Apple, feature&nbsp;an&nbsp;expression similar to their <a href="/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😊&nbsp;Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes.</a>

Smiling Face with Halo

A yellow face with furrowed eyebrows, a small frown, and large, &ldquo;puppy dog&rdquo; eyes, as if begging, pleading, or yearning (possibly even in a&nbsp;<a href="/nsfw">NSFW</a> manner, depending on the context). May also represent adoration or feeling touched&nbsp;by a loving gesture.

Huawei&#39;s design for this emoji includes a pair of&nbsp;<a href="/folded-hands">🙏 Folded Hands</a>.

At its peak the Pleading Face was&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/a-new-king-pleading-face/">the&nbsp;third most popular emoji used on Twitter</a>, and was the most commonly found emoji <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">in tweets that include hearts</a>. Used in sequence with pointing hands to indicate a bashful or shy pose (🥺👉👈)&nbsp;<a href="/tiktok/">particularly on TikTok</a>.

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Face with Pleading Eyes

A yellow face with tears welling up at the bottom of its two large eyes.

May be used to express a range of emotions including sadness, anger, embarrassment, admiration, and gratitude.&nbsp;

<a href="/smiling-face-with-tear/">🥲 Smiling Face with Tear</a> and <a href="/pleading-face/">🥺 Pleading Face</a> can be used in some similar&nbsp;contexts.

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Face Holding Back Tears

A white heart emoji, used for love and affection. Also commonly <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">used to discuss&nbsp;someone passing away</a>.

As with the other color-based hearts, this emoji can also often used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color.

An alternative character known as <a href="/white-heart-suit/">White Heart Suit</a>&nbsp;is also available, but not intended to have an emoji appearance.

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White Heart

A cartoon-styled representation of a collision. Depicted as a star-like, orange-and-yellow fiery burst, generally with one point extending to the bottom right, as if from the source of the collision.

May be used to represent various types of bangs, explosions, or crashes. Like <a href="/fire/">🔥 Fire</a> and <a href="/hundred-points/">💯 Hundred Points</a>, commonly used to represent something is excellent or exciting in some way.

Apple implements a version of 💥 Collision in its <a href="/firecracker/">🧨 Firecracker</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/camera-with-flash/">📸 Camera With Flash</a>.

Collision Symbol

A gesture showing the index finger and&nbsp;thumb touching&nbsp;to make an open circle. Represents &ldquo;I&rsquo;m okay&rdquo; or &ldquo;yes, that&rsquo;s correct / good&rdquo;.

In American Sign Language (ASL), the number nine is represented with this gesture. The same hand sign can be seen as offensive in some cultures, including in parts of Europe, the Middle East, and South America.

This can also be used as&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/no-the-ok-hand-is-not-a-symbol-of-white-power/">a&nbsp;symbol of White Supremacy</a>, depending on context.

OK Hand Sign

A fist raised in the air that may be used as a celebratory gesture: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_pump">fist pump</a>.&nbsp;Can also be used to represent <a href="/keycap-digit-zero/" title="0⃣ Keycap 0">zero</a> items, due to a lack of any fingers being held up.

Sometimes used as a symbol of&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/the-resistance-will-be-emojified/">resistance</a>&nbsp;or defiance. Variations with darker skin tone are commonly used <a href="/raised-fist-dark-skin-tone/">to represent the #BlackLivesMatter movement</a>.

Raised Fist

Two hands raised in the air, celebrating success or another joyous event.

<a href="/au-kddi/type-d-2/raising-hands/">Originally&nbsp;animated</a> to show hands being raised, as might be done along with the the exclamation&nbsp;Banzai!&nbsp;in Japan. Now more commonly only shows the hands in the air.

Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration

Two hands held out together with open palms facing up, in a slightly cupped manner, as if expecting an object to be placed within them.

May also be used to represent an open book in American Sign Language (ASL), or the gesture used by&nbsp;followers&nbsp;of Islam when&nbsp;praying.

Palms Up Together

Two hands performing a handshake gesture, indicating a&nbsp;cordial greeting between friends or associates.

As of late 2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> recommendations, this emoji design has multiple <a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">skin tone modifier</a> options. Certain platforms did, however, support a small number of single skin tone options for the handshake emoji prior to 2021 (e.g. both <a href="/google/android-7.1/new/">Google</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/new/">Samsung</a> in 2017).&nbsp;<a href="/handshakes/">View all handshake emojis</a>.

Handshake

A person bowing deeply which is known as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogeza" target="_blank" title="Dogeza on Wikipedia">dogeza</a> in Japan. Used to express a sincere apology,&nbsp;or to request a large favour.

Many variations of this&nbsp;emoji are misinterpreted as a person doing push-ups, lying down to have&nbsp;a massage, or doing a cute &quot;head resting on hands&quot; gesture.

Person Bowing Deeply

A person kneeling down on one or both knees. May be used to represent someone in prayer, or a&nbsp;person resting on the floor.

Kneeling Person

A church building, generally associated with Christian denominations. In addition quiet&nbsp;<a href="/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands">prayer</a>, churches hold regular&nbsp;<a href="/raising-hands/" title="🙌 Person Raising Both Hands In Celebration">worship</a> services, <a href="/wedding/" title="💒 Wedding">weddings</a>, <a href="/baby/" title="👶 Baby">baptisms</a> and funerals.

Church

A cube-shaped building located at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba">centre</a> of the Al-Masjid al-Haram <a href="/mosque/" title="🕌 Mosque">Mosque</a> in Mecca.

Kaaba

The glittering flashes of sparkles. One of the world&#39;s most popular emojis, it is generally depicted as a cluster of three, yellow&nbsp;four-point stars, with one large sparkle and two small ones to its left or right.

Commonly used to indicate various positive sentiments, including love, happiness, beauty, gratitude, and excitement, as well as&nbsp;newness or cleanliness.

May also be used as <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/its-not-just-you-the-sparkles-emoji-is-everywhere/">a form of ✨emphasis✨ or to convey sarcastic or mocking tones</a>.

As of late 2023, an icon similar to the sparkles emoji is also often used within tech platforms to represent a feature that utilizes&nbsp;artificial intelligence.

Both <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/sparkles/">Microsoft</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/sparkles/">Twitter&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;sparkles were&nbsp;previously&nbsp;multicolored, while&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s sparkles were previously depicted on a night sky, suggesting <a href="/sparkler/">firework sparklers</a>.&nbsp;

<a href="http://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1075074100412985345">Twitter&#39;s mobile app uses</a> ✨ Sparkles as a button users can tap to toggle between latest and top tweets on their timeline.

Similar emojis&nbsp;with less implied meaning include&nbsp;<a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>, <a href="/glowing-star/">🌟 Glowing Star</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/dizzy/">💫 Dizzy</a>.

<div id="professor_prebid-root">This emoji predates emojis inclusion within <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode</a>. The earliest incarnation of this emoji could be found in Japanese emoji keyboards in <a href="/docomo/1999/sparkles">1999</a>, specifically within the <a href="/docomo">Docomo</a> emoji set designed by&nbsp;Shigetaka Kurita.</div>

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Sparkles

A string of beads, as used in prayer or&nbsp;meditation&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_beads">in many religious traditions</a>. Generally depicted as red, wooden beads with a gold, decorative center bead and tassel.

Commonly used to represent various religious sentiments, jewelry, and magic.

Samsung&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/prayer-beads/">previously featured</a> a <a href="/latin-cross/">Latin cross</a>, suggesting a Christian&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary">rosary</a>, though now joins other vendor designs in resembling an Islamic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misbaha">misbaha</a> or Buddhist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_prayer_beads">mala</a>.

Prayer Beads

A burning candle, as lit when taking a <a href="/person-taking-bath/">bath</a> or the power is out. Depicted as a white, pillar-shaped candle with a <a href="/fire/">flame</a> and wax dripping down its sides.

Used for a wide array of content, such as various senses of light, <a href="/birthday/">birthdays</a>, remembrance, relaxation, and topics concerning <a href="/christmas">Christmas</a>, religion and <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a>. Notably featured in the <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/summoning-circle">Summoning Circle</a> meme on Twitter.

Apple&#39;s&nbsp;candle&nbsp;is in a silver holder. Samsung&rsquo;s candle was <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/candle/">previously pink</a>, perhaps as in a <a href="/birthday-cake/">birthday cake</a>.

Candle

A building used for worship by people of any faith or religion. Examples include a <a href="/church/" title="⛪ Church">church</a>, <a href="/mosque/" title="🕌 Mosque">mosque</a>, or <a href="/synagogue/" title="🕍 Synagogue">synagogue</a>. A person is shown on their knees praying, in this symbol.

Multi-faith places of worship are commonly found at <a href="/airplane/" title="✈️ Airplane">airports</a>.

Place of Worship

A latin cross, otherwise known as a Christian cross. This cross symbol is often used as a symbol of Christianity. Similar in appearance&nbsp;to the <a href="/orthodox-cross/">Orthodox cross</a>.

Latin Cross

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Folded Hands: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Folded Hands: Dark Skin Tone

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord, Roblox, and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

🙏 Folded Hands on Apple iOS 17.4

🙏 Folded Hands on Apple iOS 17.4

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