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🐂 Ox
Also known as: Bullock, Oxen, Bull, Steer
Unicode: U+1F402
Description
An ox, a bovine used as a draft animal. Depicted in brown in full profile on all fours facing left, with a tail and short horns. One of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. Often used to represent ♉ Taurus (the Bull) in the Western zodiac. 2021 is Year of the Ox. Often used to represent a bull and occasionally paired with 💩 Pile of Poo to stand in for slang terms. Not to be confused with 🐃 Water Buffalo.
Image Variants

3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
bulloxTauruszodiac
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :ox: | |
GitHub | :ox: | |
Slack | :ox: | |
Discord | :ox: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:
Ox was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Copy and paste this emoji: Copy http://emojipedia.org/ox/
Verbs:
- Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.
- Make a low noise, characteristic of bovines
- To make a lowing sound.
Nouns:
- The edible flesh of animals, especially that of mammals.
- Meat is the flesh of an animal which is eaten.
- Animal flesh used as food
- Animal flesh eaten as food
- Animal flesh used as food.
- Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.
- The flesh of an animal used as food.
- The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
- One of the constellations of the zodiac
- Constellation
- The second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20.
- Someone with a Taurus star sign