🤳

Selfie Emoji 🤳

An arm holding a phone up and angled back toward its owner, the selfie emoji depicts exactly what it sounds like — someone taking a photo of themselves. It covers selfies literally, and more broadly stands in for phone cameras, photo ops, and main-character moments.

What 🤳 means

An extended arm holding a smartphone. This emoji signifies the millennial trend of taking selfies (pictures of yourself, in case you're new to it).

The 🤳 Selfie emoji suggests the feeling of a vacation, excitement, being laid-back, casual, making memories, and carefree. It is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms. The color of the clothing and the phone would vary among platforms as well.

How and when to use it

If you're trying to signal your pals to take selfies after a class, an office session or anything, you could send the 🤳 emoji.
🤳 also evokes a feeling of nonchalance or a carefree attitude, so use it in such conversations.
If you're tired of the drama going on in a chat, pop in an 🤳 emoji.
If you recently bought a phone that has a great front camera, use 🤳 to indicate that.
Apart from just clicking pictures, 🤳 also indicates a sense of togetherness, inclusivity, and being a team. So, you can use this emoji in such contexts as well.
Snapping pictures signifies making memories. If you're talking about nostalgia and past beautiful memories, use 🤳.

Other Names

🤳 Selfie
🤳 Front Camera
🤳 Smart Phone
🤳 Excitement
🤳 Vacation
🤳 Heading Out
🤳 Dressed Up
🤳 Phone Camera
🤳 Chill
🤳 Selfie Hand
🤳 Memories
🤳 Taking Picture

🤳 in real conversations

What does 🤳 mean from a girl?

A literal selfie, or the whole ritual around one — good lighting, the right angle, posting it after. "Mirror check 🤳" is the process, not just the result, capturing the outfit or the moment before it's out the door and gone for the night.

What does 🤳 mean from a guy?

Usually the same thing, taking or referencing a self-shot photo — gym progress pics, a new haircut, proof of an outfit. It's rarer as a caption than a girl's use but means exactly the same thing when it shows up.

What does 🤳 mean besides an actual selfie?

It stretches to cover phone cameras and photo ops generally — documenting a moment, capturing a main-character feeling, not necessarily a picture of one's own face. "This view needed a 🤳" can mean any photo taken on the spot.

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › hand-prop
Codepoints: U+1F933
Emoji version: Emoji 3.0
Shortcodes: :selfie:
Keywords: camera, phone, selfie

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.