Emoji Chart
🧅U+1F9C5

Onion emoji

Showing a whole onion with papery skin and a pointed top. It is used for cooking and flavor, burgers, salads and soups, and in jokes about crying, since chopping onions makes eyes water.

Unicode name
onion
Category
Food & drink, Vegetables
Added
Emoji 12.0 in 2019
Code points
U+1F9C5
Shortcode
:onion:
Keywords
flavoring, onion

How it looks

🧅
Your device
Onion emoji in Noto Color Emoji
Noto Color Emoji
Onion emoji in Twemoji
Twemoji
Onion emoji in OpenMoji
OpenMoji

How to type 🧅

iPhone and iPad
Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “onion”.
Android
In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “onion”.
Mac
Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “onion”.
Windows
Press Windows + . (period) and type “onion”.
GitHub
Type :onion: in an issue, pull request or comment.

In other languages

LanguageNameKeywords
Españolcebollacebolla, condimento, llorar
Françaisoignonassaisonnement, condiment, légume, ognon, oignon
DeutschZwiebelEssen, Geschmack, Gewürz, Lebensmittel, Nahrung, Würze, Zwiebel
Italianocipollaalimento, cibo, cipolla, insaporire, insaporitore, piangere, soffritto
Portuguêscebolacebola, tempero
Nederlandsuismaakmaker, ui
Svenskalökgul lök, lök, smaksättning
Polskicebulaaromatyczna, cebula, jedzenie, warzywo
Türkçesoğanbaharat, sebze, soğan, yiyecek
Русскийлукголовка, готовить, еда, лук, луковица, луковый, плакать, репчатый
Українськацибуляз цибулі, їжа, приправа, спеції, цибулинний, цибуля
Ελληνικάκρεμμύδιάρωμα, γεύση, κρεμμύδι
العربيةبصلبصل, بصلة, بكاء, خضراوات, دموع, سلطة, طعام, طعم, نكهة
עבריתבצלבצל, תבלין
فارسیپیازپیاز, چاشنی, طعم‌دهنده
हिन्दीप्याज़कांदा, प्याज़, मसाला
বাংলাপেঁয়াজখাদ্য ও পানীয়, খাবার, পেঁয়াজ, স্বাদ
Bahasa Indonesiabawang bombaybawang, bawang bombai, perisa
Tiếng Việthànhgia vị, hành
ไทยหอมหัวใหญ่ปรุงรส, ผัก, หัวหอม, อาหาร
日本語タマネギタマネギ, ねぎ, 玉ねぎ, 薬味, 野菜
한국어양파맛, 양념, 양파
中文(简体)洋葱佐料, 洋葱, 调味
中文(繁體)洋蔥洋蔥, 調味, 調味料
Names in 85 more languages
Afrikaansui
Akangyeene
Albanianqepë
Amharicሽንኩርት
Aniialbasa
Armenianսոխ
Assameseপিয়াঁজ
Azerbaijanisoğan
Bashkirһуған
Basquetipula
Belarusianцыбуля
Bosnianluk
Bretonognon
Bulgarianлук
Burmeseကြက်သွန်နီ
Cantonese洋蔥
Cantonese (Simplified)洋葱
Catalanceba
CherokeeᏒᎩ
Chuvashсухан
Croatianluk
Czechcibule
Danishløg
Estoniansibul
Faroeseleykur
Filipinosibuyas
Finnishsipuli
Galiciancebola
Georgianხახვი
Gujaratiડુંગળી
Hausaalbasa
Hungarianhagyma
Icelandiclaukur
Igboyabasị
Irishoiniún
Javanesebawang bombai
Kannadaಈರುಳ್ಳಿ
Kazakhпияз
Kazakh (Arabic)پياز
Khmerខ្ទឹមបារាំង
Konkaniकांदो
Kyrgyzпияз
Lao​ຫົວ​ຜັກ​ບົ່ວ​ໃຫຍ່
Latviansīpols
Lithuaniansvogūnas
Lower Sorbiancybula
Macedonianкромид
Malaybawang
Malayalamഉള്ളി
Marathiकांदा
Mongolianсонгино
Nepaliप्याज
Nigerian PidginỌ́niọn
Norwegianløk
Norwegian Nynorsklauk
Odiaପିଆଜ
Oromoqullubbii diimaa
Pashtoپياز
Punjabiਪਿਆਜ
Quechuacebolla
Romanianceapă
Romanshtschagula
Sardinianchibudda
Scottish Gaelicuinnean
Serbianцрни лук
Serbian (Latin)crni luk
Shanၽၵ်းမီႇႁူဝ်လႅင်
Sindhiبصر
Sinhalaලූනු
Slovakcibuľa
Sloveniančebula
Somalibasal
Swahilikitunguu
Tamilவெங்காயம்
Teluguఉల్లిపాయ
Tigrinyaሽጉርቲ
Tonganʻonioni
Turkmensogan
Upper Sorbiancybla
Urduپیاز
Uzbekpiyoz
Welshwinwns
Yorubaàlùbọ́sà
Yoruba (Benin)àlùbɔ́sà
Zuluu-anyanisi

Codes

Code points
U+1F9C5
HTML
🧅
CSS
\1F9C5
JavaScript, Rust, Swift
\u{1F9C5}
Python
\U0001F9C5
UTF-8 bytes
F0 9F A7 85
UTF-16
D83E DDC5
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A7%85

Questions

What does the 🧅 onion emoji mean?

Showing a whole onion with papery skin and a pointed top. It is used for cooking and flavor, burgers, salads and soups, and in jokes about crying, since chopping onions makes eyes water.

How do I type the 🧅 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “onion”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :onion:.

When was the 🧅 emoji added?

🧅 was added in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019.

What is the Unicode code point for 🧅?

U+1F9C5. In HTML you can write 🧅, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F9C5}.

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