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🧅Onion Emoji
🧅 onion is encoded at U+1F9C5 and shipped with Emoji 12.0 (2019). Unicode files it under Food & Drink → Vegetables, alongside 18 related emojis.
What 🧅 onion means
Vegetables are where innuendo is most concentrated: 🍆 almost never means dinner, and 🥒 gets pulled the same way. Unicode's formal name for U+1F346 is AUBERGINE; eggplant is the CLDR label. Straight uses survive too — 🥑 for brunch, 🥦 for eating well, 🌶️ for spicy in both the culinary and the suggestive sense, 🧄 and 🧅 for cooking posts.
Unicode tags this one flavoring and files it under Food & Drink → Vegetables.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9C5 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧅 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧅 | |
| CSS | \1F9C5 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9C5} | |
| Python | \U0001F9C5 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDC5 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9c5} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9C5} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9C5} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%85 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 85 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDC5 | |
| Base64 | 8J+nhQ== | |
| Decimal | 129477 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.0 (2019) | |
Keywords
- flavoring
How to type 🧅
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “onion”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “flavoring”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9c5and Enter. - HTML — paste
🧅.
How 🧅 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🧅Apple
- 🧅Segoe
- 🧅Noto
- 🧅System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🧅 onion emoji mean?+
🧅 is the onion emoji, tagged flavoring. Vegetables are where innuendo is most concentrated: 🍆 almost never means dinner, and 🥒 gets pulled the same way. Unicode's formal name for U+1F346 is AUBERGINE; eggplant is the CLDR label. Straight uses survive too — 🥑 for brunch, 🥦 for eating well, 🌶️ for spicy in both the culinary and the suggestive sense, 🧄 and 🧅 for cooking posts.
What is the Unicode code for 🧅?+
onion is U+1F9C5. In HTML that is 🧅, in CSS \1F9C5, and in JavaScript \u{1F9C5}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧅 emoji added?+
onion got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Vegetables in Food & Drink.
Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧅 onion.