郭

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

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 郭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 郭
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions 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”) + 阝 (“city”) – a city with tall buildings.

Pronunciation

Note: koeh, kerh, keh - vernacular, kok - literary.
  • 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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 郭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guō
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷˤak/
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

郭

  1. outer part (of a city)
  2. A surname​.

Descendants

  • (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Kwok, Que

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

郭

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology

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

Noun

郭 (hiragana くるわ, rōmaji kuruwa)

  1. Alternative spelling of 曲輪

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

郭 (quách)

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