🧅Onion Emoji
Generally, it means someone is crying or feeling sad. It’s a visual way to show you’re upset.
The 🧅 emoji represents an onion.
- Unicode
- U+1F9C5
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :onion:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🧅 Onion emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Onion emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9C5. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Onion emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :onion:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the onion, code point U+1F9C5.
How to type the 🧅 Onion emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Onion emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Onion emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around onion for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🧅, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🧅 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🧅 means in other countries
A kitchen staple with a mild secondary reading as “layers” thanks to Shrek-style metaphors.
Plain ingredient reference.
“Like an onion, I have layers” is a common complexity or self-deprecating joke.
Before you send it: Use it freely; works as a light joke about someone being more complicated than they look.
What 🧅 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the onion lands changes how it is taken.
Emojis similar to the Onion emoji
Same family (food-vegetable) — often confused with onion or used alongside it.
Root Vegetable
🥒Cucumber
🌶Hot Pepper
🫑Bell Pepper
🌽Ear of Corn
🥕Carrot
🧄Garlic
Collections 🧅 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
Where the 🧅 Onion emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 12.0, the onion has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 7.
Same character every time — U+1F9C5 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Onion was approved as U+1F9C5 and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🧅 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.