🧅️ Onion emoji
HTML
🧅
Unicode
U+1F9C5
What is 🧅️ called?
🧅️ is called the Onion emoji.
Also known as onion bulb, onion emoji, cooking onion. The layered bulb can mean onions or tears from chopping them; colour and variety are not encoded.
What does 🧅️ mean?
🧅 is officially named onion. It represents this layered bulb vegetable, symbolizing cooking basics, flavor foundation, tears, or essential ingredients. This emoji is used in discussions about cooking fundamentals, flavor building, emotional tears, or expressing the foundational elements of cooking and emotional responses.
Use it for literal references to onion, and for cooking basics, flavor foundation, tears, essential ingredients, fundamental cooking, flavor building, culinary basics. The surrounding words should make literal, figurative, cultural, or seasonal intent clear. Related choices include 🧄 Garlic and 🥜 Peanuts.
Other meanings
It can mean cooking basics, flavor foundation, tears, essential ingredients, fundamental cooking, flavor building, culinary basics. Context determines whether the message is literal, symbolic, culinary, seasonal, humorous, or cultural.
Example Usage
Chopping onions 🧅 tears of joy for flavorful cooking!
Today’s food list includes onion 🧅
More details
Officially named onion. Its code point is U+1F9C5. It was introduced in Emoji 12.0. The layered bulb can mean onions or tears from chopping them; colour and variety are not encoded.
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Visual description
A round, layered bulb with brown or yellow papery skin, showing the characteristic appearance of cooking onions.
The layered bulb can mean onions or tears from chopping them; colour and variety are not encoded. Colours, proportions, pose, and fine details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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