selca

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noun

A photographic portrait taken by the subject; a selfie.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

nounselca (plural selcas)

plural selcas

  1. South Korean idol fandomA photographic portrait taken by the subject; a selfie.

    Jimin's selca (selfie) obsession provides ARMY with a wealth of glorious photos.

    2018, Adrian Besley, BTS: Icons of K-Pop, unnumbered page
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    My daughter and her friends take the best selcas and that's even before they use filters.

    2017, Dinna Chan Vasquez, "Let me take a selfie", BusinessMirror, 19 August 2016, page A10

    Fans take selcas with cutouts of BTS wearing traditional Korean garb—hanbok—at an exhibit of the 2018 Gangnam Festival.

    2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page (image caption)

Origin

  1. Englishself
  2. Korean셀카
  3. Englishselca

Borrowed from Korean 셀카 (selka), from English self + camera.

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APA

selca. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/selca

MLA

“selca.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/selca. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “selca,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/selca.

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