cuerdo@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · edit-210 hours agoWhatsapp just developed a new murder weaponlemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down19
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minus-squareinfeeeee@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoThe 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: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09026r-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
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: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09026r-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