U+1F64F "🙏" Person with Folded Hands Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🙏
U+1F64F "🙏" Person with Folded Hands is a versatile ideogram that represents a kneeling figure with palms pressed together, commonly used across digital platforms to convey prayers, gratitude, a plea for something, or a respectful high five. While its formal name and design suggest a person in a devout or supplicating pose, in practice it is frequently employed to express a simple "thank you," a request for good luck, or heartfelt appreciation in text messages and social media. The character bridges multiple cultural contexts, evoking both the Japanese "gassho" gesture of gratitude and the Western concept of a polite request, making it one of the most ambiguous and widely adopted emojis in global communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F64F |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Person with Folded Hands |
| Block | Emoticons |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🙏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🙏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDE4F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F64F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\ude4f |