A common alternative use for this emoji is for prayer, using the same gesture as praying hands. Rarely: a high-five. "A previous version of this emoji displayed a yellow burst of light ...

The Internet is up in arms, and its all over an emoji. If you don't know, emojis are popular little images that computer or smartphone users can insert into their text messages. Emojis can be used ...

(See: The Japanese folding hand emoji, which literally means gratitude, but is widely interpreted in other countries as praying or a high five.) As the emoji library continues to expand with ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The above emoji is one of the most popular among hundreds of the ubiquitous mobile-phone icons, but it seems people can ...

There seems to be some confusion about what certain emoji actually mean ... it’s clearly supposed to be two hands held together in prayer. How do we know this? Well, look at it: The angle ...

Los Angeles – The internet almost went into meltdown this week as it was revealed that the much loved praying emoji was actually just a high five. All the drama started when a Philadelphia TV station, ...

With emoji originating from Japan, some don’t always translate. What many people know as the praying emoji, or even less commonly the high-five emoji, is actually neither. The actual meaning ...