Selfie emoji meaning

The selfie emoji depicts a person taking a photograph of themselves with a smartphone or camera. It is a stylized representation of a person's face and upper body, often shown with their arm extended to hold the device in front of them. The emoji is commonly used to represent self-portraiture or self-promotion, and may also be used to suggest a desire to document or share one's experiences or activities.

The selfie emoji was approved in Unicode 9.0 and added in Emoji 3.0, see related proposal L2/15054L2/14174