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Surname Kuo

郭

Kuo is a Chinese surname written 郭, the Wade-Giles spelling of Mandarin Guo.

Characters for the surname Kuo

  • 郭

    outer city wall; surname

    Mandarin guō (Wade-Giles kuo1)

    attested

郭 all spellings of guō

Possible characters for Kuo

Kuo 郭 guō
In our records the spelling Kuo stands for 郭.
CharacterMandarin reading · romanization of the spelling
郭guō

Other spellings of the same character

  • Kok 郭Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien
  • Koay 郭Hokkien
  • Kuok 郭Cantonese, Foochow
  • Kwek 郭Hokkien, Teochew

About the surname Kuo

Kuo is the Wade-Giles spelling of the surname 郭, which is Guo in pinyin. Other spellings of the same character include Kwok (close to the Cantonese pronunciation), Kuok and Kwek. The character 郭 originally meant the outer wall of a city.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 郭 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 郭 · mdbg.net · meaning

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