Selfie: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand holding a smartphone at an arm's length, angled to capture a photo of the user. The skin tone is rendered in a medium-light shade to represent human diversity in digital interactions.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to way to signal that you are taking a photo of yourself or documenting your current location. It frequently appears alongside the 📸 camera or ✨ sparkles emoji to highlight a social media moment or an outing. It is widely used to express vanity, documentation of daily life, or the act of preparing for a post.

History

Selfies became a cultural phenomenon with the rise of front-facing smartphone cameras in the early 2010s. The emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0, reflecting the massive shift in how people use mobile technology to broadcast their personal lives to social networks.

Details

Glyph

🤳🏼

Unicode

U+1F933 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f933_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD33;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-prop

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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

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