Palms up together: dark skin tone Emoji

People

Two hands joined together with palms facing upward, featuring a deep dark skin tone. The fingers are slightly curved, mimicking the physical gesture of holding something fragile or opening hands to receive.

Usage Context

This gesture is most often associated with the Islamic prayer known as Dua, where a person asks for guidance or blessings. It is also used to express begging, pleading, or the desire to receive something, and is frequently paired with the 🙏 or ✨ emojis to emphasize hope or spiritual requests.

History

Added to Unicode 10.0 in 2017, this emoji was part of an effort to expand religious and cultural inclusivity. It addresses the need for specific gestures common in prayer traditions that differ from the traditional folded-hand style seen in Western cultures.

Details

Glyph

🤲🏿

Unicode

U+1F932 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f932_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD32;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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