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They can also be ambiguous. Some people think "high five" emojis are actually "prayer hands". Which convey wildly different reactions to something. Told your
by bcrosby95 6y ago
They can also be ambiguous. Some people think "high five" emojis are actually "prayer hands". Which convey wildly different reactions to something. Told your friend your Dad was diagnosed with cancer? high five
- NoodleIncident 6y agoI don't think there's a high five emoji. When I search it, I only get the praying/folded hands, and it says that it's rarely interpreted as a high five. https://emojipedia.org/folded-hands/ https://emojipedia.org/folded-hands/
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- monkeywork 6y agothat's only ambiguous if you have no cultural understanding at all ...
- parliament32 6y agoIt's definitely a "praying" emoji, the whole high five thing is an urban myth. The official spec[1] calls it "PERSON WITH FOLDED HANDS".. the keyword there is "person" (in contrast to, for example, "1FAC2;PEOPLE HUGGING" when there is multiple people). The emoji is of a single person folding their hands, which really isn't a high five unless you're somehow high five-ing yourself. [1]ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
- cableshaft 6y agoI've definitely confused the prayer emoji and thought it was a clapping emoji before. When someone else uses it, I just see the image, not the keyword associated with it.
- jodrellblank 6y agoNever heard of it beign a high five before but it's hard to trust the reasoning that "PERSON" means singular, when the "FOLDED HANDS" aren't folded.