🐂Ox Emoji
Generally, when someone uses 🐂 in a text, they’re saying that the person they’re talking about is being incredibly stubborn or foolish. It's a playful way to call someone out on their behavior.
The 🐂 emoji represents an ox.
- Unicode
- U+1F402
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :ox:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐂 Ox emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as bull emoji.
Ox emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the ox as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Ox emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :ox:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the ox, code point U+1F402.
How to type the 🐂 Ox emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F402 when there is no key at all.
Ox emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the ox as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Ox emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ox for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐂, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐂 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the ox and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🐂 means in other countries
A steady, positive symbol of strength and reliability, without any of the idiom baggage some other livestock carry.
A zodiac sign tied to hard work, patience, and reliability, generally a compliment.
“Strong as an ox” describes physical strength, also a positive meaning.
Before you send it: Safe to use as a compliment about someone's work ethic or strength almost anywhere.
What 🐂 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the ox lands changes how it is taken.
🐂 vs 🦊 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Ox
Code: U+1F402 · added 2015
Shortcode: :ox:
Generally, when someone uses 🐂 in a text, they’re saying that the person they’re talking about is being incredibly stubborn or foolish.
Unicode name: Fox
Code: U+1F98A · added 2016
Shortcode: :fox_face:
Generally, the 🦊 emoji means someone is being clever, a little sly, or just playfully mischievous.
Where the 🐂 Ox emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the ox to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F402 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Ox was approved as U+1F402 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐂 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.