🤲 Palms Up Together emoji

The Palms Up Together emoji 🤲 was approved under Unicode 10.0 in 2017. On all major platforms, the emoji depicts a pair of yellow hands close together opened with empty palms facing upwards. Depending on the platform, the hands may appear stylized or realistic. On supported platforms, the hands can be customized with various skin tones.

The Palms Up Together emoji 🤲 is often used to represent praying. In particular, the emoji is used to specifically refer to asking God (or other divine being or spiritual force) for help. The gesture depicted by the hands in the emoji highly resembles that used while performing dua, an an important prayer of supplication in Islam. Because of this, the Palms Up Together emoji 🤲 is often specifically used by Muslims to refer to praying to God or asking for God’s help. When used by either Muslims or people of other faiths, the use of the Palms Up Together emoji 🤲 overlaps with the Folded Hands emoji 🙏, and the two may appear together.