郭

郭 U+90ED, 郭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90ED ← 郬 [U+90EC] CJK Unified Ideographs 郮 → [U+90EE]

Translingual

Han character

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

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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Chinese

simp. and trad.		郭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 郭
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (郭) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
郭	*kʷaːɡ
埻	*tjunʔ, *kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ
崞	*kʷaːɡ
椁	*kʷaːɡ
槨	*kʷaːɡ
噋	*tʰuːn, *kʰʷaːɡ
廓	*kʰʷaːɡ
鞹	*kʰʷaːɡ
漷	*kʰʷaːɡ, *qʰʷraːɡ
霩	*qʰʷaːɡ

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guō (guo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwok³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kok
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): koeh / kerh / keh / kok

  (Teochew, Peng'im): guêh⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: guō
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛ
    • Wade-Giles: ko¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guo
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwok³
    • Yale: gwok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: guog³
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɔːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kok
    • Hakka Romanization System: gog`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gog⁵
    • IPA: /kok̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koeh
    • Tâi-lô: kueh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koeq
    • IPA (Taipei): /kueʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kueʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kueʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kerh
    • Tâi-lô: kerh
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kəʔ⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: keh
    • Tâi-lô: keh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: keq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /keʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /keʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /keʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /keʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /keʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kok
    • Tâi-lô: kok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔk̚³²/

Note: koeh, kerh, keh - vernacular, kok - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: guêh⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kueh
    • IPA ^(key): /kueʔ²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 郭
Mandarin	Beijing	/kuo⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/kuo⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/kuo²¹/
	Jinan	/kuə²¹³/
	Qingdao	/kuə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/kuo²⁴/
	Xi'an	/kuo²¹/
	Xining	/ku⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/kuə¹³/
	Lanzhou	/kuə¹³/
	Ürümqi	/kuɤ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/kuo²¹³/
	Chengdu	/kue³¹/ /ko³¹/
	Guiyang	/ko²¹/
	Kunming	/ko³¹/
	Nanjing	/kueʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/kuɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/kuəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/kuʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/kuəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/koʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/koʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/koʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/ko²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/kɔʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/ko⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/ko²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/ko²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/kuɔʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/kuok̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/kok̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kwɔk̚³/
	Nanning	/kʰɔk̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/kwɔk̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/kɔk̚³²/ /keʔ³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kuɔʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/kua²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/kueʔ²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/kɔk̚⁵/ /kue⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kwɑk̚/▼

Rime
Character	郭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	鐸 (104)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古博切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kwɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwak̚/
Li Rong	/kuɑk̚/
Wang Li	/kuɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*kʷˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷaːɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	郭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guō
Middle Chinese	‹ kwak ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˤak/
English	outer wall
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	郭
Reading #	1/1
No.	4752
Phonetic component	郭
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	郭
Old Chinese	/*kʷaːɡ/

Definitions

郭

1. outer part (of a city)
2. A surname​.

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Kwok, Que

Compounds

• 南郭 (nánguō)
• 吳郭魚／吴郭鱼 (wúguōyú)
• 城郭 (chéngguō)
• 夏五郭公
• 李郭同舟
• 東郭／东郭 (Dōngguō)
• 東郭履／东郭履

• 耳郭 (ěrguō)
• 負郭／负郭
• 郛郭
• 郭公 (guōgōng)
• 郭公夏五
• 郭公真人
• 郭巨

• 郭璞之說／郭璞之说
• 郭索
• 郭華情罪／郭华情罪
• 郭門／郭门
• 鐵郭銅關／铁郭铜关
• 附郭

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Japanese

Kanji

郭

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: かく (kaku, Jōyō)^{←くわく (kwaku, historical)}
• Kan’on: かく (kaku, Jōyō)^{←くわく (kwaku, historical)}
• Kun: くるわ (kuruwa, 郭)

Compounds

• 外郭
• 郭大
• 輪郭

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

郭 (quách)

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