🧅 Onion

🧅 Emoji Meaning

The 🧅 onion emoji most commonly represents the actual onion vegetable. However, it has gained some additional, often humorous, meanings online:

• Literal Onion: Referring to the culinary ingredient, recipes involving onions, or discussing the vegetable itself (e.g., "Making French onion soup tonight 🧅").
• Layers / Complexity: Metaphorically representing something with multiple layers, often related to uncovering hidden truths or complexities of a situation (e.g., "This case is like an 🧅, so many layers!").
• Tears / Emotional Reaction: Relating to the act of cutting onions and the tears it produces, symbolizing sadness, crying, or an emotional response (e.g., "Chopping onions for this breakup movie 🧅").
• Shrek: A playful association with the character Shrek from the DreamWorks animated film, due to his famous line "Ogres are like onions... they have layers." This usage is less frequent than the others.
• Layered Clothing: Sometimes used to describe someone wearing lots of layers of clothing, like an onion. (e.g., "Bundled up for the cold like an 🧅").

The specific meaning often depends on the context of the conversation.

Onion Emoji Images

Here is how Onion emoji looks like on iPhone, Android, Facebook, Messenger and X:

Food-Vegetable Related Emoji

Here is a list of other emojis from the Food & Drink category, Food-Vegetable subcategory:

• 🍆 Eggplant
• 🧄 Garlic
• 🫚 Ginger Root
• 🌶 Hot Pepper
• 🥬 Leafy Green
• 🫛 Pea Pod
• 🥜 Peanuts
• 🥔 Potato
• 🫜 Root Vegetable