Case in point: The praying hands emoji, also less-popularly known as the "high five emoji," is NO MORE. ... the hands, themselves, are now yellow, and hardly resemble human appendages at all.

The folded hands emoji shows two hands placed firmly together, meaning please or thank you. A common alternative use for this emoji is for prayer, using the same gesture as praying hands.

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 behind the ...

Praying hands by the German artist Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), circa 1500. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...

Albrecht Dürer’s Praying Hands (1508) was not, as has been assumed for centuries, a preparatory drawing for a painted altarpiece, but a finished work made as an advertisement for the master’s ...