Gesture Emojis
13 emojis tagged gesture in the official Unicode CLDR project. Click any emoji for its meaning, copy-paste, and per-platform rendering.
Gesture emojis cover full-body and hand-based body language — 🙍 person frowning, 🙅 person gesturing NO, 🙆 person gesturing OK, 🙋 person raising hand, 🧏 deaf person, 🙇 person bowing, 🙉 hear-no-evil monkey, 🤟 love-you gesture, 💁 person tipping hand, 🤷 person shrugging, 🙎 person pouting, and 🙏 folded hands. Most full-body gestures support skin-tone and gender modifiers. Use them in storytelling captions ('she shrugged 🤷'), reaction posts, or anywhere body language carries more meaning than text alone.
Frequently asked about gesture emojis
Does 🙏 mean 'pray', 'thank you', or 'high five'?
🙏 folded hands has all three meanings depending on culture. In Western Christianity it's prayer; in Buddhist and Hindu contexts it's the gassho/namaste greeting; in casual Western chat it's often 'please' or 'thank you'. The 'high five' interpretation is mostly American — there's no official meaning, only convention.
Why is 🙇 (person bowing) tagged as gesture?
🙇 depicts the Japanese 'dogeza' bow — full deep bow signifying apology, respect, or supplication. It's used as a sincere 'I'm sorry' in Japanese contexts and increasingly in English texting as a serious apology marker. The 'gesture' tag groups it with other communication-through-body-language emojis.
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