U+7285 "犅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7285 "犅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily denotes a male ox or bull, often specifically a castrated bull, and is associated with strength and domestication in classical texts. This logograph is composed of the radical 牜 (meaning "cow" or "ox") on the left and the phonetic component 岡 (gāng, meaning "ridge" or "hill") on the right, combining semantic and sound cues in its structure. Historically, it appears in ancient Chinese dictionaries like the Shuowen Jiezi, where it is defined as a gelded bovine used for farming or sacrifice, and it is considered a variant or less common form of the more standard character 犉. Though rarely used in modern Simplified Chinese, it remains a part of the traditional Chinese lexicon and is occasionally encountered in classical literature or specialized contexts.