Emoji dictionary
馃悅 Ox emoji
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What does 馃悅 Ox emoji mean?
The Ox emoji 馃悅 depicts a brown ox.
The Ox emoji 馃悅听is commonly used to represent various bovines, includes cows and bulls as well as sports mascots based on them (e.g., the Texas Longhorns). The emoji is frequently used to represent the Western zodiac sign of Taurus and the Chinese zodiac animal of the ox. Starting on February 12 in the Lunar New Year, 2021 is the Year of the Ox.
The Ox emoji 馃悅 is also sometimes used to used represent the slang word bull (“nonsense”) and its stronger cousin, bullshit.
Where does 馃悅 Ox emoji come from?
Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the Ox emoji 馃悅 shows a light brown or tan ox, facing left, with curved horns and a long tail.
An ox is a castrated bull used for farm work, but the Ox emoji 馃悅听is applied to bovines more generally, including as a stand-in for the zodiac sign of the Taurus (bull) in Western astrology and in the Chinese zodiac (Year of the Ox). The Ox emoji 馃悅听spiked in 2016 thanks to boy band One Direction’s听Niall Horan, who was dating a Taurus. 听
If the Eggplant 
听and Peach 馃崙听emoji have taught us anything, it’s that people are pretty clever at adapting emoji for their own purposes. And so, because the Ox emoji 馃悅听looks like a bull, people pair it with the Pile of Poo听emoji 馃挬 to create the word听bullshit. Clever.
Examples of 馃悅 Ox emoji
Who uses 馃悅 Ox emoji?
The Ox emoji 馃悅听sees wide use on social media to express that someone is a Taurus, born roughly between听April 20 to about May 21 on the Western calendar, or alongside Taurus-based horoscopes.
In this way, the Ox emoji 馃悅 is frequently paired with the actual Taurus emoji 鈾�.
IT鈥橲 TAURUS SEASON .. S/O TO ALL MY TAURUS BABIES… I LOVE Y鈥橝LL SM ..馃槶鉂わ笍馃悅鈾夛笍
— ken 馃 (@_KensThoughts)
People of Chinese descent or interested in Chinese culture use the Ox emoji 馃悅 to signify they were born in a Year of the Ox. Expect to see a lot of use for the emoji in 2021, as it is the Year of the Ox, around Chinese New Year.
Born in the year of the Ox, I choose to wear my Monkey face to welcome the year of the rooster 馃悅馃悞 Study break over.
— peterblanco (@peterblanco)
Sports teams whose mascots are the Bulls or Longhorns love the听Ox emoji 馃悅 on social media, using it with mascot-related slogans like #HookEm or the steer-imitating gesture,听Sign of the Horns听emoji 馃.
with the fam today 馃悅馃馃従鈥硷笍馃張 @Jordan_Miner1
— Daniel Biglow (@GottiBiglow)
As a so-called beast of burden, people sometimes add the Ox emoji 馃悅听when describing someone as a beast or just an “excellent person,” especially in sports or music.
He's a beast 馃悅
— VAWSE (@VAWSE)
And, then there’s its use to signify pure bullshit:
Yall a bunch of bull shitters 馃悅馃挬
— BLANCHARD馃殾 (@BrazyBlanchh)
Last but not least, people do use the Ox emoji 馃悅听when literally referring to the animal, whether on the farm or at the rodeo. Yeehaw.
Note
This is not meant to be a formal definition of 馃悅 Ox emoji like most terms we define on 亚洲网紅露点, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of 馃悅 Ox emoji that will help our users expand their word mastery.