Category: Food & Drink

🧅onion

🧅 onion belongs to Food & Drink. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.

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Meaning

A bulb onion, often used to represent cooking, flavoring, or the vegetable itself.

Aliases

:onion:

Keywords

flavoringonion

What does 🧅 onion mean?

The onion emoji depicts a whole, peeled bulb onion, typically with a golden-yellow or light brown color. It is generally used in the context of cooking, recipes, and grocery shopping. Depending on context, it can also represent the act of chopping onions and the associated tears, or simply a dislike for the vegetable.

Often used for

Discussing recipes or meal prep that requires onions
Adding to a grocery or shopping list
Talking about chopping onions and crying
Expressing a dislike or love for onions as a topping

Tone: Generally straightforward and literal. It rarely carries figurative meaning, though it can occasionally be used to reference 'layers' in a metaphorical sense.

Illustrative message examples with 🧅

These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.

don't forget to grab an onion 🧅 at the store
chopping these onions is making me cry 🧅😭
soup is gonna be so good, lots of garlic and 🧅
no onions on my burger please 🧅🚫
it has layers like an onion 🧅

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How 🧅 onion looks

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🧅 onion codes for developers

Every format below produces 🧅 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.

Emoji	`🧅`
Unicode codepoints	`U+1F9C5`
HTML (decimal)	`🧅`
HTML (hex)	`🧅`
CSS	`\1F9C5`
JavaScript	`\u{1F9C5}`
JSON	`\uD83E\uDDC5`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A7%85`
Shortcode (GitHub)	`:onion:`