guō

outer part (of a city)

A tall building  at the edge of a city 

Components
享 meaning component

  Meaning component

xiǎng

  

enjoy

阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

Evolution

郭 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
郭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
郭 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
郭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

guō

outer part (of a city); surname; outer city wall

 

Guō

surname Guo

Most common words with 郭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

surname Guo

郭晶晶

Guo Jingjing (1981-), Chinese female diver and Olympic gold medalist

郭敬明

Guo Jingming (1983-), Chinese young-adult fiction writer and teen pop idol

郭沫若

Guo Moruo (1892-1978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik

郭台铭

Guo "Terry" Taiming (1950-), prominent Taiwanese businessman, founder of Foxconn

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

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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