U+1F9C5 "🧅" Onion Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧅
U+1F9C5 "🧅" Onion is a pictographic representation of a bulbous vegetable with a papery brown or golden skin, typically depicted with a green stem or sprout at the top, symbolizing the common cooking ingredient known for its pungent aroma and layered structure. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0 within the Food and Drink category, and is commonly used in digital communication to represent onions themselves, cooking, recipes, or even metaphorically to suggest layers of meaning or complexity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9C5 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Onion |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🧅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🧅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDC5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddc5 |