๐Ÿง…
Unicode
U+1F9C5
Variant status
Fully-qualified
Emoji version
E12.0

onion

Definitions & examples

Represents onion โ€” tear-jerking, flavorful, and layered (just like emotions ๐Ÿฅฒ). Used in cooking, crying jokes, or metaphors about โ€œdeep feelings.โ€

  • Youโ€™re watching a touching movie scene.

    whoโ€™s cutting onions ๐Ÿง…๐Ÿ˜ญ

Cross-cultural

In Japanese chats, ๐Ÿง… (ใŸใพใญใŽ) appears mainly in cooking or family-meal contexts. Itโ€™s associated with curry, hamburg steak, and other comfort dishes โ€” evokes โ€œใŠๆฏใ•ใ‚“ใฎๅ‘ณโ€ (โ€œmomโ€™s cookingโ€) rather than tears.

Heads-up

๐Ÿง… is great for emotional or food humor, but avoid pairing with ๐Ÿ˜ญ in formal chats unless you really want the melodrama ๐Ÿ˜….

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