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.

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 ...

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.

I pray that people will realize that the praying hands emoji is in fact praying hands and not a high five — Christine Lafferty (@cnlaugherty) July 31, 2014.

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 ...