Selfie: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A hand holding a smartphone at arm's length, angled to frame the user, with a medium-dark skin tone. The screen reflects a generic blue light, indicating the device is currently in camera mode.

Usage Context

Used to announce that a user is taking a photo of themselves, signify vanity, or share a moment where the speaker is present in the scene. It is the go-to reaction for casual social media updates and is frequently paired with 📸 or 🤳 to show off a new look or location.

History

The selfie emoji was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0. It arrived during the height of the smartphone camera boom, serving as a shorthand for the cultural obsession with self-portraiture on platforms like Instagram and Snapchat.

Details

Glyph

🤳🏾

Unicode

U+1F933 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f933_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD33;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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

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