郭

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		郭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 郭
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

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Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 郭

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

Descendants

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

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Japanese

Kanji

郭

(Jōyō kanji)

1. Quarter (of a city)
2. Enclosure

Readings

• Go-on: 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

Etymology

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

Noun

郭(くるわ) • (kuruwa) 

1. Alternative spelling of 曲輪

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 郭 (quách, Quách)

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