🤳Selfie Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you a 🤳, they’re just showing you a picture they took of themselves. It’s a simple way to share a photo.
The 🤳 emoji is a person holding a camera up to their face.
- Unicode
- U+1F933
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :selfie:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🤳 Selfie emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Selfie emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F933. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Selfie emoji skin tones
🤳 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Selfie emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :selfie:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F933.
How to type the 🤳 Selfie emoji
No picker to hand? The selfie can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Selfie emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Selfie emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around selfie for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🤳, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🤳 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the selfie and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🤳 means in other countries
A plain reference to taking or sharing a selfie, understood the same way across most casual digital spaces.
tags a photo as self-taken, no deeper meaning beyond the literal action
can read as slightly too casual or vain next to serious business text
Before you send it: Fine anywhere informal; in a formal thread it can feel like an odd fit rather than an insult, so use sparingly.
What 🤳 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the selfie lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🤳 Selfie emoji came from
It arrived with the 3.0 release of the standard, which dates the selfie to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F933 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Selfie was approved as U+1F933 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🤳 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.