郭

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

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

References[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 郭

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 郭
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
郭-seal.svg 郭-bigseal.svg
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”) + 邑 (“city”) – a city with tall buildings.

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • keh/kerh/koeh - vernacular (incl. surname);
  • kok - literary.
  • Wu
    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location 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/
    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
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		gwok3
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 郭
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		guō
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ kwak ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*kʷˁak/
    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[edit]

    郭

    1. outer city wall
    2. (～村) Guo (a village in Dongsong, Luoning, Luoyang, Henan, China)
    3. A surname​.

    Descendants[edit]

    • → English: Guo, Kuo, Kwok
    • → Tagalog: Kwek, Que

    Compounds[edit]

    Derived terms from 郭

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    郭

    (common “Jōyō” kanji)

    1. Quarter (of a city)
    2. Enclosure

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Etymology[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    郭
    くるわ
    Grade: S
    kun’yomi

    Noun[edit]

    郭(くるわ) • (kuruwa) 

    1. Alternative spelling of 曲輪

    Korean[edit]

    Etymology[edit]

    From Middle Chinese 郭 (MC kwɑk̚). Recorded as Middle Korean 곽〮 (Yale: kwak) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

    Hanja[edit]

    Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

    Wikisource

    郭 (eumhun 둘레/성곽 곽 (dulle/seonggwak gwak))

    1. Hanja form? of 곽 (“outer city wall; girdle”).
      Synonym: 廓 (곽 (gwak))
    2. Hanja form? of 곽 (“a surname”).

    Compounds[edit]

    Compounds

    References[edit]

    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    郭: Hán Nôm readings: quách, Quách

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