犎

犎 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土戈竹手 (GIHQ), four-corner 4450₀, composition ⿱封牛)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 702, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20086
• Dae Jaweon: page 1115, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1815, character 5
• Unihan data for U+728E

Eberhard (1968) thought this and similar words like 封 (OC *poŋ, *poŋs, “mound, tumulus”) were all related and fundamentally meant "hump".

Or from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *brawŋ (“wild yak, buffalo”) (STEDT, Boodberg 1937, Schuessler, 2007), cognate with Tibetan འབྲོང ('brong, “wild yak”), Burmese ပြောင် (praung, “gaur”).

犎

1. Indian ox

   • 犎，㸼：牛名；領上肉㩧（暴）胅起如橐駝。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     犎，㸼：牛名；领上肉㩧（暴）胅起如橐驼。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1037, 丁度 Ding Du (chief editor), 《集韻》 Jiyun "Collected Rimes"

     Fēng, fēng: niú míng; lǐngshàng ròu (bó) dié qǐ rú tuótuó.

     犎, 㸼 (fēng "zebu"): name of a kind of bovines. On their necks rise fleshy humps, bulging and swelling like camels'.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. zebu

• Go-on: ふう (fū)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)

• 犎(ほう)牛(ぎゅう) (hōgyū, “zebu”)