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• RotSteinFinke@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s even more confusing: Emojis were invented in Japan, which adds another layer of cultural differences. Holding your hands flat against each other is a common sign for prayer in Christianity, but in Japan it is a commen gesture for giving thanks. Hence the “official” meaning: Thank you

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  • infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The official name of the emoji is simply “folded hand”. It was part of Unicode 6.0, released in 2010, codepoint U+1F64F. It’s on page 11 on the original proposal: www.unicode.org/L2/…/09026r-emoji-proposed.pdf

    I guess they deliberately named it to the neutral “folded hand” so asian people can use as thank you, while westerners as pray

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• ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Commonly high fives arr given by the palms of the same hand therefore the thumb would’ve been visible at least on one of the hands if ot was a high five emoji

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So this is how I find out I’ve also been doing high fives wrong half the time ;_;

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    • Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Language is versatile, as long as people understand which you mean, feel free to use it in whatever way works for you 🤷‍♂️

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    • ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      🥺🙏 you can submit a high five emoji idea here, but I haven’t checked if there is actually a high five emoji or whether or not it has already been submitted www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

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