郭
Meanings
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- 1.outer city wall
- 1.surname Guo
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Wiktionary
- 1.outer city wall
- 2.(alt. form 廓) outline
- 3.(historical) Guo, a minor state that existed during the Zhou dynasty and was conquered by the state of Qi in 670 BCE.
- 4.to be none of someone's own business; to have nothing to do with someone
- 5.a surname
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Etymology
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. 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”
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