Onion emoji 🧅
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F9C5
What 🧅 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Onion 🧅 is tagged with these keywords: flavoring.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing flavoring or onion in the emoji search brings up 🧅.
Onion 🧅 is one of 20 emoji in the vegetables subgroup of food & drink (132 emoji), next to 🥜 🫘 🌰 🫚.
Will 🧅 show on my friend's phone?
🧅 was added in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
How to type 🧅
Any emoji picker finds 🧅 when you search for onion.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type onion.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type onion in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type onion.
Codes for developers
Onion 🧅 is a single code point, U+1F9C5. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9C5 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧅 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧅 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9C5"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9C5} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%85 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 85 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧅 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the onion emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧅 "onion" and links it with flavoring. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the vegetables subgroup of food & drink.
When was the onion emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
How do I type the onion emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🧅 when you search for onion.