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&nbsp;pale skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

<ul>
	<li>Type 1 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;Pale white; blond or red hair; blue eyes; freckles</li>
	<li>Type 2 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;White; fair; blond or red hair; blue, green, or hazel eyes</li>
</ul>

This is a combination of type 1&nbsp;(pale white) and type 2 (white). Despite the descriptions, Apple&rsquo;s artwork tends to display this type-1-2 skin tone modifier with dark hair.

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-1-2

Emojipedia

Discord

Folded Hands: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Folded Hands: Medium Skin Tone

Folded Hands: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Folded Hands: Dark Skin Tone

Folded Hands: Light Skin Tone

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

Apple

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

Google Noto Color Emoji

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Samsung

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

Microsoft

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

WhatsApp

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord 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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Twitter / X

Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Facebook

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

Huawei

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

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

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

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

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

Twitter Emoji Stickers

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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JoyPixels

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

Toss Face (토스페이스)

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

Sony Playstation

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

OpenMoji

A licensable emoji design set.

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Icons8

An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

emojidex

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Messenger

Rolled out on 2023-07-23, this minor update to the Twemoji emoji set revised the designs of the <a href="https://emojipedia.org/face-with-medical-mask">😷 Face with Medical Mask</a>, <a href="https://emojipedia.org/pleading-face">🥺 Pleading Face</a>, and <a href="https://emojipedia.org/face-holding-back-tears">🥹 Face Holding Back Tears</a> emojis.

These three emoji designs had previously been updated within the Twitter web application&#39;s emoji picker tool, but not within tweets themselves prior to this update.

Twemoji 15.0.1

Rolling out globally from 2023-06-13, Twemoji 15.0 introduced support for September 2022&#39;s Emoji 15.0 recommendation to Twitter&#39;s classic block color emoji set.

Prior to their official rollout, these new emoji designs were initially visible within the Twitter web app&#39;s emoji picker tool.

Twemoji 15.0

Rolling out globally from 2022-03-08, Twemoji 14.0 introduced support for 2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> recommendations. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-14-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 14.0

Twemoji 13.1.1 updated the designs of a handful of emojis, including <a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/battery/">🔋 Battery</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/rainbow-flag/">🏳️&zwj;🌈 Rainbow Flag</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-13-1-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 13.1.1

Released on 2021-05-28,&nbsp;Twemoji 13.1&nbsp;added support for 217 new emojis from&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-13-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Twemoji 13.1

Released on 2021-03-12,&nbsp;Twemoji 13.0.2&nbsp;updated the designs of 14 emojis, including the syringe emoji which had its contents and two blood drops removed.

Twemoji 13.0.2

Released on 2020-07-13, Twemoji 13.0.1 updated the designs of 28&nbsp;emojis, including changing both&nbsp;<a href="/calendar/">Calendar </a>and&nbsp;<a href="/tear-off-calendar/">Tear-Off Calendar&nbsp;</a>to display the date of <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a> and to show all <a href="/person-kneeling/">Person Kneeling</a> emojis using&nbsp;a single knee.

Twemoji 13.0.1

Twemoji 13.0&nbsp;was the first Twemoji release to provide full support for <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>.&nbsp;Released on 2020-05-11, this update added 103&nbsp;new emojis. Prior to this update Twitter did support select Emoji 13.0 designs:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="/transgender-flag/">🏳️&zwj;⚧️ Transgender Flag</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/transgender-symbol/">⚧ Transgender Symbol</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/woman-in-tuxedo/">🤵&zwj;♀️ Woman in Tuxedo</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-13-0-emoji-changelog/">More on this update.&nbsp;</a>

Twemoji 13.0

A minor update to Twemoji that began rolling out to users on&nbsp;2020-04-17. A total of 36&nbsp;emoji designs were modified.

Twemoji 12.1.6

Twemoji 12.1.5 was the first Twemoji release to provide support for <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>. Released on 2020-01-27, this update added&nbsp;178 new emojis which primarily added new gender neutral sequences.&nbsp;This update followed <a href="/twitter/twemoji-12.1.4/changed/">Twemoji 12.1.4</a> which changed existing emojis to use a gender inclusive design where no gender was specified. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-12-1-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 12.1.5

An update to Twemoji began rolling out to users on 2019-11-06 and was<a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/releases/tag/v12.1.4"> added to the open source repository</a> on 2019-11-13. This release&nbsp;gave a gender-inclusive appearance to most human emojis when a gender isn&#39;t specified.

Note: this did not add support for additional gender-neutral sequences approved in <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;- instead it changed the appearance of existing neutral emojis.

<a href="/discord/">Discord</a> updated its emoji support to Twemoji 12.1.4 in November 2019, in the first emoji update on the platform since 2016.

Twemoji 12.1.4

Twemoji 12.1.3

Released 2019-06-25, this update to Twemoji added support for the <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a> draft candidate&nbsp;<a href="/transgender-flag/">🏳️&zwj;⚧️&nbsp;Blue, Pink, and White Flag</a> (aka Transgender Flag).

Twemoji 12.1

An update to Twemoji which added support for all 230 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-12-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 12.0

A minor update to Twemoji which <a href="/twitter/twemoji-11.4/changed/">changed the appearance of three emojis only</a>.

Twemoji 11.4

A minor design up date to&nbsp;Twemoji, released January 24, 2019. Primarily focussed on people participating in&nbsp;activities&nbsp;(e.g, running, handball, dancing, etc), as well as some animals. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-11-3-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 11.3

A minor update to Twemoji which&nbsp;adjusted black shades&nbsp;for better contrast when shown on dark backgrounds such as those used in&nbsp;night mode.

Twemoji 11.2

A minor update which increased the saturation of the color&nbsp;red in a number of emojis&nbsp;and updated&nbsp;the <a href="/person-gesturing-no/">person gesturing no</a> variations&nbsp;to&nbsp;appear less like they are pushing against two walls.

Twemoji 11.1

Twemoji 11.0 was released on June 5&nbsp;2018 for&nbsp;Twitter.com, TweetDeck, and other Twemoji platforms. This release&nbsp;added&nbsp;support for 156 of the 157 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>. Twemoj&nbsp;supported&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="/pirate-flag/">Pirate Flag emoji</a> prior to this&nbsp;release.

Twemoji 11.0 is the release that follows <a href="/twitter/twemoji-2.7/">version 2.7 of Twemoji</a>, bringing the version numbers in line with the Unicode Emoji documentation version that it supports.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-11-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 11.0

Twemoji 2.7

A minor update to Twemoji, released on April 11, 2018. The most notable change in this release is the switchover from a realistic looking <a href="/pistol/">pistol</a>&nbsp;to a colored toy design. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-6-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.6

Twemoji 2.5 was&nbsp;a minor update released in February 2018 that added no new emojis, but updated the appearance of a number of designs. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.5

Twemoji 2.4 makes a number of changes to <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>&nbsp;additions to bring these more in line with other vendors.

Twemoji 2.4

Twemoji 2.3 added support for <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a> and <a href="/twitter/twemoji-2.3/changed/">modified</a> a number of existing emojis.

Twemoji 2.3

Hand gestures in Twemoji 2.2.3 were changed to <a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/releases/tag/v2.2.3">right-handed display</a>; and&nbsp;<a href="/menorah/" title="🕎 Menorah With Nine Branches">Menorah</a> fixed to display nine candles.

Twemoji 2.2.3

Twemoji&nbsp;2.2.2&nbsp;removed skin&nbsp;tone support from the following&nbsp;multi-person emojis (and their associated gendered ZWJ sequences)&nbsp;as per <a href="http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16332-remove-multi-emb.pdf">Unicode recommendation</a>.

<ul>
	<li><a href="/family/" title="👪 Family">👪&nbsp;Family</a></li>
	<li><a href="/woman-and-man-holding-hands/" title="👫 Man And Woman Holding Hands">👫&nbsp;Man And Woman Holding Hands</a></li>
	<li><a href="/men-holding-hands/" title="👬 Two Men Holding Hands">👬&nbsp;Two Men Holding Hands</a></li>
	<li><a href="/women-holding-hands/" title="👭 Two Women Holding Hands">👭&nbsp;Two Women Holding Hands</a></li>
	<li><a href="/people-with-bunny-ears/" title="👯 Woman With Bunny Ears">👯&nbsp;Woman With Bunny Ears</a></li>
	<li><a href="/people-wrestling/" title="🤼 Wrestlers">🤼&nbsp;Wrestlers</a></li>
	<li><a href="/people-wrestling/" title="🤝 Handshake">🤝 Handshake</a></li>
</ul>

Find out <a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/releases/tag/v2.2.2">more about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.2.2

A minor update which <a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/commit/04377eae67db2e38a357e5f840fd3721fe28417e">changed</a>&nbsp;the direction of&nbsp;<a href="/pouting-cat/" title="😾 Pouting Cat Face">😾 Pouting Cat Face</a> to face forward, and increased the size of the star on the&nbsp;<a href="/flag-vietnam/">🇻🇳&nbsp;Flag for Vietnam</a>&nbsp;to &quot;better match the official flag&quot;.

Twemoji 2.2.1

Twemoji 2.2 was released on September 20, 2016 and includes gendered emojis, new&nbsp;emoji professions, skin tone modifiers for multiple-person emojis, as well as design changes to more closely match <a href="/apple/ios-10.0/">Apple&#39;s iOS 10</a> update.&nbsp;This update added support for <a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a> during the draft period. More <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-2-emoji-changelog/">about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.2

Adds support for the <a href="/rainbow-flag/" title="🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Flag">rainbow flag</a> and <a href="/pirate-flag/" title="🏴‍☠️ Pirate Flag">pirate flag</a>&nbsp;as&nbsp;well as visual updates to the <a href="/back-arrow/" title="🔙 Back With Leftwards Arrow Above">back</a>, <a href="/soon-arrow/" title="🔜 Soon With Rightwards Arrow Above">soon</a>, <a href="/top-arrow/" title="🔝 Top With Upwards Arrow Above">top</a>, <a href="/end-arrow/" title="🔚 End With Leftwards Arrow Above">end</a>, and <a href="/on-arrow/" title="🔛 On With Exclamation Mark With Left Right Arrow Above">on</a>&nbsp;emojis.

Twemoji 2.1.2

The first release of Twemoji to support emoji characters from <a href="/unicode-9.0/">Unicode 9.0</a>. Also includes minor changes to four emojis. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.1

Twemoji 2.0 was released on&nbsp;December 9, 2015 and included skin tone modifiers, as well as Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 emoji support. See all&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-0-emoji-changelog/">changes in this update</a>.

🙏🏻 Folded Hands: Light Skin Tone on undefined Twemoji 2.0

🙏🏻 Folded Hands: Light Skin Tone on undefined Twemoji 2.0

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