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🧅 onion emoji
The onion emoji 🧅 depicts an onion, a vegetable commonly associated with food and flavoring. It is used in conversations about ingredients, cooking, and meals. The emoji can also appear alongside other food-related symbols when referring to an onion.
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- Category
- Food & Drink
- Unicode version
- 12.0
- Release year
- 2019
- Unicode sequence
- U+1F9C5
- Emoji version
- 12.0
What does 🧅 mean?
A round, layered vegetable with a brown skin, typically depicted in a realistic style. The onion is a staple in many cuisines and is known for its pungent smell and flavor. It is used in various dishes for its distinct taste and as a base ingredient in cooking. The emoji represents the onion itself, focusing on its culinary significance.
Common uses
- Referring to the vegetable onion: 'I chopped an onion for the stew 🧅'
- Indicating the use of onions in cooking: 'Onions are a key ingredient in this dish 🧅'
- Joking about crying due to cutting onions: 'I'm crying because of the onions 🧅'
In a message
For tonight's dinner, we're sautéing onions and garlic 🧅
Don't forget to buy onions at the grocery store 🧅
The onions made me tear up, but the dish is delicious 🧅
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Frequently asked questions
What does 🧅 mean?
A round, layered vegetable with a brown skin, typically depicted in a realistic style. The onion is a staple in many cuisines and is known for its pungent smell and flavor. It is used in various dishes for its distinct taste and as a base ingredient in cooking. The emoji represents the onion itself, focusing on its culinary significance.
How do I copy Onion?
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Does Onion support skin tones?
This entry has no skin-tone variations in the current catalog. Different platform designs are renderings of the same character, not separate emoji.