🧅 Onion is an emoji from the Food & Drink category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F9C5 and it was released in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🧅 Onion mean?
🧅 Onion is part of the “Vegetables” set in the Food & Drink emoji category. People often use it in messages about flavoring. It was approved as part of Emoji 12.0 in 2019 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :onion: to insert it.
Onion emoji codes
| Emoji | 🧅 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F9C5 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🧅 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🧅 |
| CSS | \1F9C5 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9C5} |
| Python | \U0001F9C5 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A7%85 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 85 |
| Shortcode | :onion: |
How to type 🧅 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “onion”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “onion”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “onion”.
- HTML: write
🧅in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Onion keywords
- flavoring
Frequently asked questions
What does 🧅 mean?
🧅 Onion is part of the “Vegetables” set in the Food & Drink emoji category. People often use it in messages about flavoring. It was approved as part of Emoji 12.0 in 2019 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :onion: to insert it.
How do I copy and paste the Onion emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🧅 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🧅 Onion added to Unicode?
Onion was released as part of Emoji 12.0 in 2019.
Related Vegetables emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.