U+1F9C5 · emoji since 2019
A brown onion with papery skin. It stands for cooking, layers, and the tears that come with chopping.
People use it for kitchen life, the it has layers joke, and a good cry over dinner prep. Brings the flavour and the feelings.
In texting, 🧅 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🧅 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Onion emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the onion emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🧅 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.