guó
nation
Simplified form of 國. Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 或 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[C.q]ʷˤək | kwok | guó | state (n.) |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 83.0851% of movies
202nd most common character in movies
20th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+56FD |
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