🧅
onion
A bulbous, layered white vegetable with a papery skin, often used in cooking
Basic Information
- Unicode U+1F9C5
- Version Emoji 12
- Category food & drink
- Subcategory vegetables
Platform Meaning
A bulbous, layered white vegetable with a papery skin, often used in cooking
Tags
flavoring
Platform Meaning
- Apple： A whole onion with papery outer layers and a rounded shape
- Google： A white onion with distinct layers and a small green shoot at the top
- Twitter： A round, white onion with visible concentric layers and a slightly textured surface
- Unicode： Onion
Detailed Introduction
The 🧅 emoji represents an onion, a common vegetable used globally in cooking for its pungent flavor and aroma. It can evoke themes of cooking, food preparation, or recipes. Sometimes, it's used metaphorically to reference the 'layers' of something, like personality traits, due to the onion's layered structure. It may also appear in contexts related to tears, as cutting onions often causes eye irritation. Additionally, it can be part of discussions about healthy eating, vegetarian/vegan diets, or specific cuisines that heavily use onions.