There’s a Pray / Thank You 🙏 emoji you can drop into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac.
Pray / Thank You 🙏 symbol in Western cultures can be used to show prayer or devotion more generally as well as thanks or appreciation.
The official Unicode name is “Person with Folded Hands” because there are many other meanings depending on the culture including namaste, please, bowing, pleading, sorrow or regret.
How Pray / Thank You 🙏 looks in different fonts
The Pray emoji is only available in Segoe UI Emoji and Segoe UI Symbol fonts. Modern Word will automatically switch to the Emoji font, if necessary.
Pray / Thank You 🙏 codes
These are the important code numbers or values you’ll need to enter the Pray / Thank You or 🙏
Decimal: 128591 Hex: 1f64f
Web: 🙏 or 🙏
(web codes aren’t used in Microsoft Office, we’ve included them for the sake of completeness.)
Word and Outlook
The Pray / Thank You 🙏 sign does NOT have an inbuilt shortcut in Word.
Use the standard Word Alt + X symbol shortcut 1f64f + Alt + X
Once in a document you can copy it to AutoCorrect and make your own shortcut.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert | Symbols | Symbol and look for the Pray / Thank You symbol.
Windows
In Windows there are several shortcuts to enter the Pray / Thank You 🙏 character into any program, but they use a numeric keypad, not the number row above the letters.
Alt + 128591
Window 10 Emoji Panel
The Windows 10 Emoji Panel has the Pray / Thank You 🙏 emoji. Use Win + . (period/fullstop) to open the panel then search for Pray.
See Emoji Panel is part of Windows 10 that totally sucks
Depending on the version of Windows, you might have the option of different skin tones for the hands (see the row of yellow/brown choices).
MacOS and Office for Mac inserting characters
On a Mac, to enter the Pray / Thank You 🙏 symbol:
- Command + Control + Spacebar shortcut to open the Character Viewer.
- Search for “ Pray “ or “Folded Hands” and the Viewer should find the symbol you need.
Despite the name Character Viewer, the Apple system tool will also insert characters into any program, including Office for Mac.
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