Onion emoji meaning

The onion emoji represents a round vegetable that is commonly used in cooking to add flavor to a variety of dishes. The design of the emoji usually shows a bulb-shaped onion with a brown or light golden outer layer, similar to how onions look in real life. It is often used in conversations about cooking, vegetables, or recipes. Additionally, it can be used in a playful way to talk about crying, since cutting onions is known to cause tears.

The onion emoji was approved in Unicode 12.0 and added in Emoji 12.0, see related proposal L2/18077