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🧅 Onion

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🧅 Emoji meaning

Crying when cutting onions, spicy, medicinal plant, China, India.

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🧅 Meaning

I always cry when I cut onions! Healthy vegetable, flavor enhancer for cooking and medicinal plant of the year 2015. The onion came to Europe 5000 years ago. The largest producers include China and India.

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Onion

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Garlic vs onion; both bulb vegetables, easily interchanged in cooking contexts.

Onion

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Onion vs kiwi; round sliced cross-sections can look like generic rings.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Onion” was approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.0 .

In the release of Emoji 12.0 and Unicode 12.0 in 2019 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ flavoring + onion

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