🧅 Onion
🧅 Meaning
The 🧅 emoji depicts a red or purple onion with a brownish-yellow skin and green sprouts (or none) . It's one of the most fundamental cooking emojis. Its primary meanings are:
🧅 Culinary and cooking: A basic ingredient in many world cuisines, it symbolizes the beginning of food preparation.
🧅 Tears and Emotions: Classically associated with the process of cutting onions and the resulting tearfulness. Can metaphorically signify emotional pain or "bitter truth."
🧅 Health and benefits: Onions are known for their beneficial properties - anti-inflammatory, antioxidant.
🧅 Piquancy and aroma: Symbolizes the ability to enhance the taste of dishes and create a fragrant base.
🧅 Simplicity and accessibility: Represents a simple, inexpensive and versatile product.
Usage
Emoji 🧅 are used in culinary, emotional, and everyday contexts:
- Getting Started: "I'm starting to cook dinner - onions first! 🧅🔪."
- Metaphor of emotions: "This situation made me shed a lot of onion tears 🧅😢."
- Benefit demonstration: "I add onions to my salad for vitamins 🧅🥗."
- Complaint about inconvenience: "Cutting onions again, tears streaming down my face! 🧅🤧".
- Flavor Description: "This sauce has a slight onion note 🧅."
How it appeared
The 🧅 emoji was added to Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and became available on major platforms in 2020-2021. Its introduction filled a noticeable gap in the vegetable emoji community.
Interesting facts
- Onion Varieties: While the emoji most often depicts a red onion, it can represent any type—bulb, white, yellow, shallot.
- Symbol of "layers": In a metaphorical sense, the onion is often used to describe something multi-layered and complex ("like an onion, layer upon layer").
- Historical value: Onions are one of the oldest cultivated vegetables, having been grown as far back as Ancient Egypt.
- Popularity in memes: The emoji has become popular in memes about cooking and the "suffering" associated with it.
Combining 🧅 with other emojis
🧅 creates delicious and emotional combinations:
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Cooking: 🧅 🍅 🥒 🥕 🔪 🍳
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Example: "I'm making a soup base: onion, carrot, celery 🧅🥕🍲"
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Emotional Metaphors: 🧅 😭 💔 🎭
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Example: "This conversation was like chopping an onion... 🧅😢"
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Healthy Eating: 🧅 🥗 🥙 💊
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Garden and harvest: 🧅 👩🌾 🌱 🧄
Where can you use 🧅 to optimize your website?
Emoji 🧅 is a versatile tool for culinary and agricultural brands:
- Culinary websites and blogs about cooking.
- Restaurants and food delivery services.
- Farmers markets and organic food stores.
- Gardening societies and seed shops.
- Manufacturers of kitchen utensils (knives, cutting boards).
🧅 is a foundational emoji. It symbolizes both the joy of creativity in the kitchen and the inevitable "tears" of labor. Using it makes a message more lively, delicious, and emotionally charged.
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