# 🧅 Onion emoji

🧅 Onion is an emoji in the vegetables set of Food & drink. It was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. Related words: flavoring.

- Emoji: 🧅
- Unicode name: onion
- Code points: U+1F9C5
- Category: Food & drink, Vegetables
- Added: Emoji 12.0 (2019)
- GitHub shortcode: :onion:
- Keywords: flavoring, onion
- Page: https://emojichart.com/onion-emoji

## What it means

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 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

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | cebolla | cebolla, condimento, llorar |
| Français (fr) | oignon | assaisonnement, condiment, légume, ognon, oignon |
| Deutsch (de) | Zwiebel | Essen, Geschmack, Gewürz, Lebensmittel, Nahrung, Würze, Zwiebel |
| Italiano (it) | cipolla | alimento, cibo, cipolla, insaporire, insaporitore, piangere, soffritto |
| Português (pt) | cebola | cebola, tempero |
| Nederlands (nl) | ui | smaakmaker, ui |
| Svenska (sv) | lök | gul lök, lök, smaksättning |
| Polski (pl) | cebula | aromatyczna, cebula, jedzenie, warzywo |
| Türkçe (tr) | soğan | baharat, sebze, soğan, yiyecek |
| Русский (ru) | лук | головка, готовить, еда, лук, луковица, луковый, плакать, репчатый |
| Українська (uk) | цибуля | з цибулі, їжа, приправа, спеції, цибулинний, цибуля |
| Ελληνικά (el) | κρεμμύδι | άρωμα, γεύση, κρεμμύδι |
| العربية (ar) | بصل | بصل, بصلة, بكاء, خضراوات, دموع, سلطة, طعام, طعم, نكهة |
| עברית (he) | בצל | בצל, תבלין |
| فارسی (fa) | پیاز | پیاز, چاشنی, طعم‌دهنده |
| हिन्दी (hi) | प्याज़ | कांदा, प्याज़, मसाला |
| বাংলা (bn) | পেঁয়াজ | খাদ্য ও পানীয়, খাবার, পেঁয়াজ, স্বাদ |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | bawang bombay | bawang, bawang bombai, perisa |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | hành | gia vị, hành |
| ไทย (th) | หอมหัวใหญ่ | ปรุงรส, ผัก, หัวหอม, อาหาร |
| 日本語 (ja) | タマネギ | タマネギ, ねぎ, 玉ねぎ, 薬味, 野菜 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 양파 | 맛, 양념, 양파 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 洋葱 | 佐料, 洋葱, 调味 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 洋蔥 | 洋蔥, 調味, 調味料 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): ui
- Akan (ak): gyeene
- Albanian (sq): qepë
- Amharic (am): ሽንኩርት
- Anii (blo): albasa
- Armenian (hy): սոխ
- Assamese (as): পিয়াঁজ
- Azerbaijani (az): soğan
- Bashkir (ba): һуған
- Basque (eu): tipula
- Belarusian (be): цыбуля
- Bosnian (bs): luk
- Breton (br): ognon
- Bulgarian (bg): лук
- Burmese (my): ကြက်သွန်နီ
- Cantonese (yue): 洋蔥
- Cantonese (Simplified) (yue-Hans): 洋葱
- Catalan (ca): ceba
- Cherokee (chr): ᏒᎩ
- Chuvash (cv): сухан
- Croatian (hr): luk
- Czech (cs): cibule
- Danish (da): løg
- Estonian (et): sibul
- Faroese (fo): leykur
- Filipino (fil): sibuyas
- Finnish (fi): sipuli
- Galician (gl): cebola
- Georgian (ka): ხახვი
- Gujarati (gu): ડુંગળી
- Hausa (ha): albasa
- Hungarian (hu): hagyma
- Icelandic (is): laukur
- Igbo (ig): yabasị
- Irish (ga): oiniún
- Javanese (jv): bawang bombai
- Kannada (kn): ಈರುಳ್ಳಿ
- Kazakh (kk): пияз
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): پياز
- Khmer (km): ខ្ទឹមបារាំង
- Konkani (kok): कांदो
- Kyrgyz (ky): пияз
- Lao (lo): ​ຫົວ​ຜັກ​ບົ່ວ​ໃຫຍ່
- Latvian (lv): sīpols
- Lithuanian (lt): svogūnas
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): cybula
- Macedonian (mk): кромид
- Malay (ms): bawang
- Malayalam (ml): ഉള്ളി
- Marathi (mr): कांदा
- Mongolian (mn): сонгино
- Nepali (ne): प्याज
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Ọ́niọn
- Norwegian (no): løk
- Norwegian Nynorsk (nn): lauk
- Odia (or): ପିଆଜ
- Oromo (om): qullubbii diimaa
- Pashto (ps): پياز
- Punjabi (pa): ਪਿਆਜ
- Quechua (qu): cebolla
- Romanian (ro): ceapă
- Romansh (rm): tschagula
- Sardinian (sc): chibudda
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): uinnean
- Serbian (sr): црни лук
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): crni luk
- Shan (shn): ၽၵ်းမီႇႁူဝ်လႅင်
- Sindhi (sd): بصر
- Sinhala (si): ලූනු
- Slovak (sk): cibuľa
- Slovenian (sl): čebula
- Somali (so): basal
- Swahili (sw): kitunguu
- Tamil (ta): வெங்காயம்
- Telugu (te): ఉల్లిపాయ
- Tigrinya (ti): ሽጉርቲ
- Tongan (to): ʻonioni
- Turkmen (tk): sogan
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): cybla
- Urdu (ur): پیاز
- Uzbek (uz): piyoz
- Welsh (cy): winwns
- Yoruba (yo): àlùbọ́sà
- Yoruba (Benin) (yo-BJ): àlùbɔ́sà
- Zulu (zu): u-anyanisi

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| 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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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/onion-emoji