Official Meaning & Overview
Represents a pungent vegetable. Use for cooking, flavor, healthy eating, or crying. Often associated with cooking.
Official Unicode CLDR Name
Onion
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:onion:Related Meanings & Search Keywords
Onion🧅cookingtearsspicyflavor🧅🧅flavoring
Official Names in 9 Languages
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Unicode Codepoint Breakdown
Standard single-codepoint Unicode emoji character
🧅
U+1F9C5Onion
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⚙️Technical Info
Unicode
U+1F9C5Hex Code
1F9C5Shortcodes
:onion:CLDROnion
VersionEmoji 15.0
Developer Codes
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:onion:HTML Entity (Hex)
🧅HTML Entity (Dec)
🧅CSS Content
\1F9C5JavaScript (ES6)
\u{1F9C5}UTF-16 / JSON
\uD83E\uDDC5URL Escape
%F0%9F%A7%85Quick Reference FAQ
What does the 🧅 Onion emoji mean?
Represents a pungent vegetable. Use for cooking, flavor, healthy eating, or crying. Often associated with cooking.
What is the Unicode and HTML entity for 🧅 Onion?
The Unicode codepoint for 🧅 is U+1F9C5, its HTML hex entity is 🧅, and its shortcode is :onion:. It is part of Emoji 15.0.
How do you say the 🧅 Onion emoji in other languages?
Official localized names include: 한국어 "양파", 日本語 "玉ねぎ", 简体中文 "洋葱", 繁體中文 "洋蔥", Español "Cebolla".