Palms up together: light skin tone Emoji
People
Two light-toned hands held side-by-side with palms facing upward and slightly cupped. The design highlights the skin tone modification, reflecting a specific gesture of supplication or receiving.
Usage Context
This gesture is widely recognized as a sign of prayer, particularly the Islamic practice of Dua, or as a way to ask for a favor or show humility. It is frequently used to express hope, gratitude, or a desire for something to be granted. It pairs well with other spiritual or positive reaction emojis like 🙏 or ✨.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0, the hands were introduced to give users a way to represent specific religious and cultural gestures that were previously unavailable in standard character sets. The light skin tone variant was implemented following the 2015 introduction of the Fitzpatrick scale modifiers to improve representation.
Details
Glyph
🤲🏻
Unicode
U+1F932 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f932_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory hands
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
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