selfieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɛlfi/
• 韻: -ɛlfi

名詞

selfie (plural selfies)

1. (informal, mobile telephony, social media) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.

   take a selfie

   • 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, “re: Dissolvable stitches”, in ABC Online Forum‎, archived from the original on 23 November 2013:

     Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.

   • 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, “bmcguirk's photos.”, in Flickr‎, archived from the original on 26 November 2004:

     Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.

   • 2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148:

     That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie.

   • 2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie”, in National Public Radio‎, archived from the original on 14 September 2015:

     The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie [title]

   • 2013 December 13, Brooke Gladstone, quoting Roberto Schmidt, “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media”, in National Public Radio‎, archived from the original on 1 January 2026:

     Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.

   • 2017 August 8, “Say Cheese”, in Lily's Driftwood Bay, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Lord Stag (Stephen Fry):

     I shall take this photograph myself. This must be what they call a selfie.

   • 2018, “She Works Out Too Much”, in Little Dark Age, performed by MGMT:

     Don't take it the wrong way / I can never keep up / Sick of liking your selfies

   • 2022 July 3, Kalley Huang, “The Rise of the 0.5 Selfie”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 July 2025:

     Nothing is visible until the selfie is taken, which is half the fun. […] Posting the selfies on Instagram, where limbs are noodly or eyes are buggy, is meant to be silly, making it seem like the photographers take themselves — and social media — less seriously.

使用する際の注意点

• Usage is very varied, including photos of oneself that are not taken by oneself (not self-portraits), as in “Could you take a selfie of me?” (compare autobiography, which may be written by a ghostwriter), or not only of oneself, as in “This is a selfie of me and my sister.” Many terms for recently popular photo genres have been coined by analogy by suffixing -ie, as in shelfie, or by blending, as in nelfie. A self-portrait of multiple people is sometimes called an ussie, groupie, or selvesie.

上位語

• self-portrait

派生語

派生した語

動詞

selfie (third-person singular simple present selfies, present participle selfying, simple past and past participle selfied)

1. (intransitive, informal, mobile telephony) To take a selfie.

参照

Further reading

• Selfie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Selfies on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

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