onion

Group: Food & drink · Subgroup: Food vegetable · Emoji 12

Keywords

flavoring
onion

About this character

onion belongs to the Food & drink group and is encoded at U+1F9C5. It was added in Unicode 12.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F9C5
Hex: 1F9C5
Decimal: 129477
HTML: 🧅
CSS: \1F9C5
JavaScript: \u{1F9C5}
Python: \U0001F9C5
UTF-8: F0 9F A7 85

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

avocado U+1F951
eggplant U+1F346
potato U+1F954
carrot U+1F955
ear of corn U+1F33D
hot pepper U+1F336
bell pepper U+1FAD1
cucumber U+1F952
leafy green U+1F96C
broccoli U+1F966
garlic U+1F9C4
peanuts U+1F95C
beans U+1FAD8
chestnut U+1F330
ginger root U+1FADA
pea pod U+1FADB
brown mushroom U+1F344 U+200D U+1F7EB
root vegetable U+1FADC

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.