What is the Unicode for the Onion emoji?

The Onion emoji 🧅 is U+1F9C5 in the Unicode standard.

How do you type the Onion emoji?

On iOS or Android, search "onion" in the emoji keyboard. On desktop, press Win+. (Windows) or Ctrl+Cmd+Space (Mac) and search "onion".

What emojis go well with Onion?

The Onion emoji 🧅 pairs naturally with related food-drink symbols. Stack it for emphasis or combine it with sparkles, hearts, or fire for richer meaning.

Onion 🧅

🧅

Onion 🧅 — meaning, copy & paste, keywords, and usage. Part of the Food & Drink family, Vegetables subgroup. Tap to copy 🧅, see related combos, and learn how onion is used in texting, captions, and reactions across iOS, Android, and desktop.

What Onion 🧅 means

The Onion emoji 🧅 belongs to the Food & Drink family, Vegetables subgroup. It's commonly used to convey onion in messages, captions, and reactions across social platforms. Onion 🧅 — meaning, copy & paste, keywords, and usage. Part of the Food & Drink family, Vegetables subgroup. Tap to copy 🧅, see related combos, and learn how onion is used in texting, captions, and reactions across iOS, Android, and desktop.

When people send 🧅

🧅 in group chats and DMs is shorthand for flavoring. Stack it ("🧅🧅🧅") for intensity, drop it at the end of a sentence to soften or sharpen the tone, or pair it with another food & drink emoji for a richer read.

Popular Onion combos

🧅🥗 — that girl meal
🧅✨ — wellness era
🧅😋 — comfort cooking
🧅🌿 — garden fresh

How to copy Onion 🧅

On the web, tap the emoji above to copy it to your clipboard, then paste anywhere. On iOS and Android, long-press the character to select and copy. On desktop, use the system emoji picker (Win + . on Windows, Ctrl + Cmd + Space on macOS) and search for "onion".

Details

Category	Food & Drink
Group	food-drink
Subgroup	Vegetables
Code point	U+1F9C5
Unicode	\u1F9C5
Unicode version	12

Keywords

flavoring