guō
outer part (of a city)
A tall building 享 at the edge of a city 阝
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 郭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
surname Guo | ||
Guo Jingjing (1981-), Chinese female diver and Olympic gold medalist | ||
Guo Jingming (1983-), Chinese young-adult fiction writer and teen pop idol | ||
Guo Moruo (1892-1978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik | ||
Guo "Terry" Taiming (1950-), prominent Taiwanese businessman, founder of Foxconn |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷˤak | kwak | guō | outer wall |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.3524% of movies
3199th most common character in movies
1813th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+90ED |
Shuowen | “郭,齊之郭氏虛。善善不能進,惡惡不能退,是以亡國也。从邑,聲。” |
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