Selfie Emoji

People

A cartoon hand holding a smartphone at an angle, displaying the screen facing the viewer. The perspective captures the classic arm-extended pose used to take a photo of oneself.

Usage Context

Used to signal that you are taking a photo, recording a video, or simply showing off your current location or activity. It is frequently sent alongside 📸 or 🤳 to acknowledge that someone is currently in front of a lens.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2016, this emoji reflects the cultural explosion of smartphone photography and social media trends that made the front-facing camera a staple of modern communication.

Details

Glyph

🤳

Unicode

U+1F933

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f933:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD33;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-prop

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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