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Versatile Veggie! Celebrate the culinary staple with the Onion emoji, a symbol of flavor and versatility.
A whole onion, typically depicted with brown or red skin. The Onion emoji is commonly used to represent onions, cooking, and strong flavors. It can also symbolize health benefits and kitchen essentials. If someone sends you a 🧅 emoji, it might mean they are talking about cooking with onions, discussing versatile ingredients, or highlighting flavor.
The 🧅 Onion emoji represents the common vegetable, symbolizing its layers, the tendency to make people cry when chopped, and the idea of 'peeling back the layers' to reveal deeper meaning or complexity.
Simply click on the 🧅 emoji above to instantly copy it to your clipboard. You can then paste it anywhere - in messages, social media, documents, or any app that supports emojis.
The 🧅 onion emoji was introduced in Emoji E12.0 and is now supported across all major platforms including iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS.
The 🧅 onion emoji belongs to the Food & Drink category, specifically in the Vegetables subcategory.
Cutting onions 🧅 releases syn-propanethial-S-oxide, a gas that triggers tears. This makes the onion emoji useful for both cooking contexts and emotional content ("cutting onions" means something made you cry). Added in Unicode 12.0 (2019).
| Unicode Name | Onion |
| Apple Name | Onion |
| Unicode Hexadecimal | U+1F9C5 |
| Unicode Decimal | U+129477 |
| Escape Sequence | \u1f9c5 |
| Group | 🍗 Food & Drink |
| Subgroup | 🥦 Vegetables |
| Proposals | L2/18-077 |
| Unicode Version | 12.0 | 2019 |
| Emoji Version | 12.0 | 2019 |
| Unicode Name | Onion |
| Apple Name | Onion |
| Unicode Hexadecimal | U+1F9C5 |
| Unicode Decimal | U+129477 |
| Escape Sequence | \u1f9c5 |
| Group | 🍗 Food & Drink |
| Subgroup | 🥦 Vegetables |
| Proposals | L2/18-077 |
| Unicode Version | 12.0 | 2019 |
| Emoji Version | 12.0 | 2019 |