🧅 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:

1. Getting Started: "I'm starting to cook dinner - onions first! 🧅🔪."
2. Metaphor of emotions: "This situation made me shed a lot of onion tears 🧅😢."
3. Benefit demonstration: "I add onions to my salad for vitamins 🧅🥗."
4. Complaint about inconvenience: "Cutting onions again, tears streaming down my face! 🧅🤧".
5. 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:

• Cooking: 🧅 🍅 🥒 🥕 🔪 🍳

  • Example: "I'm making a soup base: onion, carrot, celery 🧅🥕🍲"

• Emotional Metaphors: 🧅 😭 💔 🎭

  • Example: "This conversation was like chopping an onion... 🧅😢"

• Healthy Eating: 🧅 🥗 🥙 💊

• Garden and harvest: 🧅 👩‍🌾 🌱 🧄

Where can you use 🧅 to optimize your website?

Emoji 🧅 is a versatile tool for culinary and agricultural brands:

1. Culinary websites and blogs about cooking.
2. Restaurants and food delivery services.
3. Farmers markets and organic food stores.
4. Gardening societies and seed shops.
5. 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.