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food-vegetable
Onion
1F9C5 · U+1F9C5 · 🧅
What it means
The Onion Emoji 🧅 features a smooth, freshly peeled whole onion in soft shades of off-white to purple, topped by wispy green shoots or roots.
Commonly used for onions, strong flavors, or evocative jokes about tearing up or layered personalities; you might see it in recipe chats or emotional discussions alike.
Unlike garlic 🧄 (all about the bulb) or beans 🫘 (all about the pod), the onion stands alone with its trademark layers—nature’s original multitasker (it’s not often an emoji can make you laugh and cry at the same time).
Search terms like "onion," "flavor," "layers," or "tear" will help you uncover this multipurpose veggie.
Commonly used for onions, strong flavors, or evocative jokes about tearing up or layered personalities; you might see it in recipe chats or emotional discussions alike.
Unlike garlic 🧄 (all about the bulb) or beans 🫘 (all about the pod), the onion stands alone with its trademark layers—nature’s original multitasker (it’s not often an emoji can make you laugh and cry at the same time).
Search terms like "onion," "flavor," "layers," or "tear" will help you uncover this multipurpose veggie.
Keywords
Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.
Details
| Hexa | 1F9C5 |
|---|---|
| Codepoints | U+1F9C5 |
| HTML (hex) | 🧅 |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧅 |
| CLDR short name | onion |
| Emoji version | Emoji 12.0 · 2019 → |
| Qualification | fully-qualified |
| Category | Food & Drink |
| Subcategory | food-vegetable |
Timeline
- Emoji 12.0 · 2019Onion entered the standard as U+1F9C5, establishing the codepoint still used today.
- TodayRendered across major platforms. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each draw it in their own style while preserving the same underlying character.
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