🧅 Onion Emoji
The Onion emoji 🧅 depicts a food or drink associated with onion, cry and cook. It belongs to the food group of Unicode emojis and is available on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and every major messaging app.
Onion in texting
In messages the onion is used in messages about meals, cravings, recipes and plans to eat out. It usually stands in for the word itself, so "onion 🧅" reads naturally, and it can replace the word entirely in short replies.
Onion on social media
On social platforms it shows up in restaurant posts, recipe captions and food reviews, often alongside related food emojis to build a themed set.
Common uses
- Referring to onion without typing it out
- Adding tone to a short message
- Theming a bio, caption or username
Technical details
- Official name: Onion
- Category: Food & Drink
- Unicode code point: U+1F9C5
- Unicode block: Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
- HTML decimal: 🧅
- HTML hex: 🧅
- CSS: \1F9C5
- Keywords: onion, cry, cook