U+1F64F Person with Folded Hands

U+1F64F was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block U+1F600 to U+1F64F Emoticons in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F64F behaves as Emoji Base regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “folded hands” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: ask, folded hands, hand, high 5, high five, please, pray, thanks.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🙏︎ The character can be changed in appearance, if it is followed by an emoji modifier. See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.