Onion Emoji

Food

A bulbous, layered vegetable with a papery, reddish-purple outer skin and a small green sprout at the top. It is shown partially sliced to reveal the concentric rings inside.

Usage Context

Used frequently in cooking threads, recipes, or casual chats about grocery shopping. It is a frequent companion to emojis like 🧄 or 🥕 when discussing meal prep, and is often used metaphorically to talk about peeling back layers of a complex situation or someone crying during a movie.

History

The onion was added to the Unicode standard in 2020 as part of Emoji 13.0. It was heavily requested by users who wanted a more comprehensive set of kitchen staples, filling a notable gap in the existing vegetable category.

Details

Glyph

🧅

Unicode

U+1F9C5

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9c5:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDC5;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Food

Subcategory food-vegetable

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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