Slack Emoji for Thank You (and You're Welcome)

The usual Slack emoji for thank you are 🙏 :pray:, 🙌 :raised_hands: and ❤️ :heart:. React with one on the message you are thankful for, or type the code in a reply. For "you're welcome" or "no problem", 😊 :blush:, 🤗 :hugging_face: or 🙌 work. Many teams also add custom text emoji such as :ty:, :tysm:, :np: and :welcome:, because a word in a reaction is harder to misread than a picture.

Our free Slack emoji maker makes a :ty: or :np: text emoji in under a minute.

Slack emoji for thank you and you're welcome

To react, hover over the message and click the add-reaction icon, then search "pray" or "thank", or send +:pray: to react to the latest message (all six ways are in how to react to a message in Slack). Slack also shows three one-click reactions on hover; you can pick your own under Preferences, Messages & media, Emoji, so 🙏 is always one click away.

We checked every code on this page on 28 October 2026 by adding each one as a reaction with Slack's reactions.add API in a test channel of our own Free workspace. All nine codes in the table worked, and so did :+1:. Every text code returned invalid_name: :ty:, :tysm:, :np:, :yw:, :welcome:, :kudos:, :hnd: and :thanks-team: exist only after someone in the workspace uploads them, and Slack has no built-in :thanks: or :thank_you: either.

Which thanks emoji says what

• • 🙏 :pray: is the most common thanks reaction at work, but some people read it as praying or as a high five. In most teams nobody minds.
• • 🙌 :raised_hands: says thanks with a bit of celebration. Good for a teammate who shipped something.
• • 👏 :clap: on a small favour can read as sarcastic. Save it for real wins.
• • 👍 :+1: means "noted" or "OK", not thanks. Fine for "got it", flat for a favour.
• • ❤️ :heart: is warm. From a manager to a new hire it can feel more personal than intended; 🙌 is safer.

Custom thank-you emoji to add

Text emoji are the clearest. Some that teams add:

:ty:          thank you
:tysm:        thank you so much
:thanks-team: thanks, team
:np:          no problem
:yw:          you're welcome
:welcome:     welcome to the team
:hnd:         have a nice day
:kudos:       kudos

To make one, open the Slack emoji maker, choose Text to emoji, type the word, pick colors, and download it. Then click the smiley face in the Slack message field, choose Add Emoji, upload the file and give it the name, such as ty. Full steps are in how to add custom emoji to Slack. More ideas by team are in Slack emoji ideas. A :welcome: emoji is handy in an intro channel, where every new member gets a row of them.

Thank-you messages that go with the emoji

A reaction is fine for small things. For real help, add a line that says what the person did:

Thanks, [name]! That fix saved us the release. 🙌
Thank you for jumping in on this, it made the deadline possible. 🙏
Big thanks to [name] for covering on-call this weekend. ❤️

Naming the specific thing is what makes a thank you land. A public thanks in a team channel also tells managers who helped.

For news and reminders, see Slack emoji for announcements.

FAQ

What is the Slack emoji for thank you? 🙏 :pray: is the most common. 🙌 :raised_hands: and ❤️ :heart: also work.

What emoji means you're welcome in Slack? 😊 :blush:, 🤗 :hugging_face:, or a custom :np: or :yw: text emoji.

Is a thumbs up a thank you in Slack? Not quite. 👍 reads as "noted". Use 🙏 or 🙌 for thanks.

How do I make a :ty: emoji in Slack? Make a text emoji that says "ty" with the slack.green emoji maker, then add it with Add Emoji and name it ty.