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

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

Additional Derived Characters
  • 𡻳, 𰒈, 𤍪, 𥕖, 𦗒, 𨎎, 𱗳, 𥂣, 𪅪, 𡻙, 𦹐, 𣍉

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

More information simp. and trad., alternative forms ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 郭, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...
Characters in the same phonetic series (郭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
More information Old Chinese ...

The original version on oracle bones shows a tall tower similar to 京 and 高 (< 髙) which perhaps was part of the outer city walls in ancient Chinese cities. At the bottom, there was an enclosed space 囗 to represent city walls or a city in general and another tower.

Later, the tower at the bottom was stylized like the unrelated 子 and the enclosed space was drawn as the unrelated 回. Hence, the whole character was written like 𩫖 and 𩫏. Sometimes, the second variant had the bottom part contracted into 十.

Eventually, 邑 was added to form an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 𩫖 (“tall building”) + 邑 (“city”), hence 𩫩, sometimes simplified into 𨟍 – outer city walls with tall towers.

From clerical script, the 𩫖 became written as the unrelated 享 through the process of libian; the two characters are unrelated.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-kawk ~ s/r-kwak (“outer covering; skin, bark, rind”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007).

“to be none of someone's own business”
Contraction of 關我／关我 (guān wǒ), short for 關我屁事 / 关我屁事 (guān wǒ pìshì).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • guóh - vernacular (incl. surname);
  • guók - literary.
  • Dialectal data
More information Variety, Location ...
More information Rime, Character ...
More information Character, Reading # ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

郭

  1. outer city wall
  2. (literary) (alt. form 廓) outline
  3. (～國) (historical) Guo, a minor state that existed during the Zhou dynasty and was conquered by the state of Qi in 670 BCE.
  4. (Taiwan, Internet slang) to be none of someone's own business; to have nothing to do with someone
  5. a surname
    郭守敬  ―  Guō Shǒujìng  ―  Guo Shoujing (Yuan dynasty Chinese astronomer)

Descendants

  • → English: Guo, Kuo, Kwok, Kuok, Quek, Kuek, Kwek
  • → Tagalog: Que, Kwok, Guo

Compounds

  • 倚郭
  • 倚郭縣 / 倚郭县
  • 傅郭
  • 北郭
  • 北郭先生
  • 北郭十友
  • 匡郭
  • 南郭 (nánguō)
  • 南郭先生
  • 南郭子綦
  • 南郭綦
  • 南郭處士 / 南郭处士 (nánguō chǔshì)
  • 吳郭魚 / 吴郭鱼 (wúguōyú)
  • 周郭
  • 四郭
  • 坊郭
  • 城郭 (chéngguō)
  • 城郭國 / 城郭国
  • 夏五郭公
  • 外郭
  • 女郭
  • 尺郭
  • 山郭
  • 崖郭
  • 巴音郭楞 (Bāyīnguōléng)
  • 市郭
  • 帶郭 / 带郭
  • 廛郭
  • 折巾郭
  • 月郭
  • 村郭
  • 李郭
  • 李郭仙
  • 李郭仙舟
  • 李郭同舟
  • 李郭同船
  • 李郭舟
  • 東郭 / 东郭 (Dōngguō)
  • 東郭之疇 / 东郭之畴
  • 東郭之跡 / 东郭之迹
  • 東郭先生 / 东郭先生 (Dōngguō xiānshēng)
  • 東郭履 / 东郭履
  • 東郭逡 / 东郭逡
  • 柳郭
  • 棺郭
  • 機郭 / 机郭
  • 水郭
  • 江郭
  • 治郭安邦
  • 溢郭
  • 溝郭 / 沟郭
  • 石郭
  • 稜郭 / 棱郭
  • 羅郭 / 罗郭
  • 耳郭 (ěrguō)
  • 膚郭 / 肤郭
  • 西郭
  • 許郭 / 许郭
  • 謝郭 / 谢郭
  • 負郭 / 负郭
  • 負郭田 / 负郭田
  • 負郭相君 / 负郭相君
  • 賈郭 / 贾郭
  • 赤郭
  • 車側郭門 / 车侧郭门
  • 輪郭 / 轮郭
  • 迎郭伋
  • 邊郭 / 边郭
  • 邑郭
  • 邯鄲郭公 / 邯郸郭公
  • 郊郭
  • 郛郭
  • 郡郭
  • 郭亮 (Guōliàng)
  • 郭伋待期
  • 郭公 (guōgōng)
  • 郭公塼 / 郭公砖
  • 郭公夏五
  • 郭公真人
  • 郭公磚 / 郭公砖
  • 郭前 (Guōqián)
  • 郭勒木德 (Guōlèmùdé)
  • 郭圍 / 郭围
  • 郭塹 / 郭堑
  • 郭家 (Guōjiā)
  • 郭家堡
  • 郭家金穴
  • 郭履
  • 郭巨
  • 郭巨埋兒 / 郭巨埋儿
  • 郭巾
  • 郭景飛仙 / 郭景飞仙
  • 郭李
  • 郭椒
  • 郭汾陽 / 郭汾阳
  • 郭河 (Guōhé)
  • 郭泰巾
  • 郭泰碑銘 / 郭泰碑铭
  • 郭況穴 / 郭况穴
  • 郭泰船
  • 郭洛帶 / 郭洛带
  • 郭璞之說 / 郭璞之说
  • 郭申
  • 郭碑
  • 郭禿 / 郭秃
  • 郭穴
  • 郭索
  • 郭細侯 / 郭细侯
  • 郭舟
  • 郭華情罪 / 郭华情罪
  • 郭術 / 郭术
  • 郭邑
  • 郭郎
  • 郭郎子
  • 郭郛
  • 郭里 (Guōlǐ)
  • 郭門 / 郭门
  • 郭隗宮 / 郭隗宫
  • 郭隗尊
  • 郭隗臺 / 郭隗台
  • 郭隗請始 / 郭隗请始
  • 郭隗金
  • 郭雀兒 / 郭雀儿
  • 郭順時 / 郭顺时
  • 鄒郭 / 邹郭 (Zōuguō)
  • 鄽郭
  • 重來郭伋 / 重来郭伋
  • 銅郭 / 铜郭
  • 錫林郭勒 / 锡林郭勒 (xīlínguōlè)
  • 鐵郭金城 / 铁郭金城
  • 鐵郭銅關 / 铁郭铜关
  • 附郭 (fùguō)
  • 附郭縣 / 附郭县
  • 陰郭 / 阴郭
  • 青郭
  • 靖郭君
  • 靖郭氏
  • 靜郭君 / 静郭君
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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

Etymology

More information Kanji in this term ...
For pronunciation and definitions of 郭 – see the following entry.
【くるわ】
[noun] [from late 1500s] a palisade, wall, moat, natural waterway, or other structure used to divide a specific area from its surroundings, such as a castle or fort
[noun] [probably from early 1600s] the area so bounded by such a structure
[noun] [from 1678] a red-light district, specifically one that is divided from the rest of the town by means of a wall or fence or similar structure
[noun] [from 1698] (poetry, haiku) in 俳諧 (haikai, “vulgar haiku”), the general realm of subject matter used for the opening line
Alternative spellings
曲輪, 廓
(This term, 郭, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 郭 (MC kwak). Recorded as Middle Korean 곽〮 (kwák) (Yale: kwak) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

郭 (eumhun 둘레/성곽 곽 (dulle/seonggwak gwak))

  1. hanja form? of 곽 (“outer city wall; girdle”)
    Synonym: 廓 (곽 (gwak))
  2. hanja form? of 곽 (“a surname”)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.
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