郭

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): 享 (“tall building”) + 阝 (“city”) – a city with tall buildings.

Han character

郭 (radical 163 邑+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜木弓中 (YDNL), four-corner 0742₇)

1. outer part (of a city)
2. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 1273, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39474
• Dae Jaweon: page 1771, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3780, character 7
• Unihan data for U+90ED

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Japanese

Kanji

郭 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: かく (kaku)
• Kun: くるわ (kuruwa)

Compounds

• 外郭
• 郭大
• 輪郭

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Korean

Hanja

郭 (hangeul 곽, revised gwak, McCune-Reischauer kwak, Yale kwak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

郭 (pinyin guō (guo1), Wade-Giles kuo¹)

Proper noun

郭 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin guō)

1. a Chinese surname

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Min Nan

Hanzi

郭 (POJ Koeh/Keh/Kok)

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Kwok, Que

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Vietnamese

郭 (quách)