Emoji
(ONION): meaning and Unicode code
Meaning of the emoji
(ONION), Unicode code, HTML entity, and usage examples. Copy the symbol with one click.

Information about emoji ONION
- Unicode Name
- ONION
- Unicode Codepoint
- U+1F9C5
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Subcategory
- Vegetables
- Slug
- onion
Meaning and description of emoticon 
The
emoji depicts a brown onion โ a pungent cooking staple. Located in the 'Food & Drink' section of Unicode.
expresses simple food, natural taste, and a hearty product without unnecessary frills.
works best when you need to show a vegetable, mushroom, natural product, or calm everyday food. In chat it reads as "this is about simple food," "the natural taste matters here," or "it's about a straightforward product." Pairing
with
completes the picture. A typical phrase: "A calm, straightforward taste matters here
" โ
shifts the topic in a single symbol. Beneath the surface, such emojis can signify not a specific vegetable but the very image of natural, unpretentious food.
Usage Examples 
| Format | Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortcode (Slack) | :onion: | |
| Shortcode (Discord) | :onion: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :onion: | |
| HTML Dec | 🧅 | |
| HTML Hex | 🧅 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9C5"; | |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001F9C5 | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83E\uDDC5 | |
| Perl | \x{1F9C5} | |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F9C5} | |
| Punycode | xn--yu9h | |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%A7%85 | |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A7 85 |


