Emoji 12
onion
Also known as flavoring
The onion emoji depicts a whole onion bulb, commonly used to represent onions, cooking, flavoring, or tears.
Meaning
The onion emoji represents the onion vegetable and is often used in discussions about cooking, ingredients, and flavoring. It can also convey tears or sadness through the idiom of cutting onions.
Unicode name
The official Unicode meaning is onion, a bulb vegetable associated with cooking and flavoring.
Platform designs
Apple
In Apple's design, the onion appears as a purple-red bulb with a pointed top and a pale yellow base.
Google
In Google's Noto design, the onion is shown as a yellow-brown bulb with a white root and a small green sprout.
Twitter
In Twitter's Twemoji design, the onion is a purple bulb with a pointed top and a pale root area.
Noto (Apache 2.0) · Twemoji (CC BY 4.0) · OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Frequently Asked Questions
Which category does 🧅 onion belong to?
🧅 onion belongs to the food & drink category, which contains 132 emojis.
Which Unicode version added 🧅 onion?
🧅 onion was added in Emoji 12. Its codepoint is U+1F9C5, made up of 1 code points.
