Palms up together: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

Two hands cupped together with palms facing upward, rendered in a medium-dark skin tone. The hands are positioned as if holding a small object or preparing to receive something.

Usage Context

This gesture is most often used to represent prayer, specifically the Islamic practice of Dua, or to signify a request for guidance or hope. It is frequently employed to express gratitude, ask for a favor, or convey a sense of humility. People often use it alongside 🙏 to emphasize the act of seeking or offering supplication.

History

Introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017, this emoji was added to provide more nuanced ways to represent diverse religious and cultural gestures. It was specifically requested to better capture the posture used during personal prayer and reflection in many global traditions.

Details

Glyph

🤲🏾

Unicode

U+1F932 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f932_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD32;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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