🙏

A person with folded hands, or only the hands.

🙏︎

1. An emoji used to humbly ask or apologize for something.
   • 2021, Merit Clark, Killing Innocence‎^[1] (in English), Whitaker Press, →ISBN:

     Bibi: Meet me later? Please? 🙏 Please? jUst want to talk

   • 2022 March 22, Mehera Bonner, “Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott’s Baby Is No Longer Named Wolf”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[2] (quotation in English; overall work in English):

     Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott have changed the name of their son! Kylie announced the news on Instagram, writing, “FYI our son’s name isn’t Wolf anymore 😅😅 We just really didn’t feel like it was him. Just wanted to share because I keep seeing Wolf everywhere. 🙏”

2. An emoji used to thank.
   • 2018, Ramsis F. Ghaly MD, The Spiritual Journey of a Coptic Christian Brain Surgeon: Views and Reflections‎^[3] (in English), iUniverse, →ISBN:

     RV. 🤧BEAUTIFUL thank You for sharing this with Us ♥ 🙏 ♥ 🙏 ♥ 🙏 🤧 🤧 🤧

   • 2023 July 15, Chelsey Sanchez, “Beyoncé Looks Incredible in a Body-Hugging Orange Dress With a Plunging Neckline”, in Harper's Bazaar‎^[4] (quotation in English; overall work in English):

     Captioning photos and videos from one of Blue’s performances, in which the duo matched in glittery silver tops and metallic trousers, the mom of three wrote, “My beautiful first born 🙏🏾 I’m so proud and thankful to be your mama. You bring us so much joy, my sweet angel.”

3. An emoji depicting praying, such as for something to happen

   I hope your grandfather gets better soon 🙏🏻

   • 2022, Adarsh K Warman, The Journey to True Fitness (in English), Infotech Pvt Ltd, →ISBN, page 80:

     I pray to Almighty God and hope that you will surely be benefitted at least in some areas of your life, by reading this book !!! May peace prevail on earth. Amen 🙏🙏🙏

4. (South Asia, Southeast Asia) namaste

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

5. (on social media) high five

The base emoji typically has a generic, non-realistic skin tone, such as bright yellow, blue, gray. With the Fitzpatrick skin type modifiers 1–2 (🏻), 3 (🏼), 4 (🏽), 5 (🏾), 6 (🏿), the resulting emoji be will one of the following combinations:

• Appendix:Gestures/praying hands
• Appendix:Gestures/namaste