onion Emoji
The 🧅 onion emoji is commonly used to represent cooking ingredients, flavors, and home food themes.
U+1F9C5
The 🧅 emoji represents an onion, a staple vegetable used in many cuisines. It’s useful for menus, recipe posts, and food-related messages. Below you’ll find meaning, practical uses, and copy/encode options.
onion Emoji Meaning
🧅 (ONION, U+1F9C5) most commonly signals cooking and food. People use it when talking about ingredients, recipes, meal prep, or grocery lists. It can also stand in for flavor notes like “savory,” “aromatic,” or “cooking basics,” especially in contexts such as cooking tips or kitchen-themed posts. In some casual writing, it may simply mean “onion” as a subject (for example, a dish name, a category like vegetables, or a farming/gardening mention). The emoji’s meaning stays straightforward—mostly about food and cooking—though its exact look can vary slightly by platform.
Common uses
- •Recipe and cooking posts (e.g., “add chopped onion”)
- •Menus and food labels (vegetables, ingredients, side dishes)
- •Grocery lists and meal planning messages
- •Food blogs or newsletters highlighting onion-based dishes
- •Kitchen or vegetarian/plant-based content to show ingredients
Examples
🧅 Onion Symbol (U+1F9C5)
- 🧅Chop the 🧅 and sauté until soft.
- 🧅Today’s shopping: 🧅, garlic, and tomatoes.
- 🧅I’m making soup with 🧅 and carrots.
- 🧅Add 🧅 to the stir-fry for extra flavor.
- 🧅Vegetables of the day: 🧅, peppers, and zucchini.
Variations
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Technical codes
| Unicode | U+1F9C5 | |
| HTML Entity | 🧅 | |
| HTML Code | 🧅 | |
| CSS | \1F9C5 |
FAQ
What is the onion emoji code point?
The onion emoji 🧅 has Unicode code point U+1F9C5.
How can I copy the 🧅 onion symbol?
Copy the character directly: 🧅. You can also use the escapes on this page for HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
What are the common HTML/CSS/JavaScript ways to encode 🧅?
HTML entity: 🧅. CSS escape: \\1F9C5. JavaScript escape: \\u{1F9C5}.
What does 🧅 usually mean in chat or social posts?
It usually refers to an onion as an ingredient—often in cooking, recipes, shopping lists, or general food/vegetable content.