郭

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outer city wall

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HSK 3.0: Level 7–9
Strokes: 10
Radical: 邑 +8
Structure: Left–right 左右
Traditional: 郭
Common rank: #1,984
Unicode: U+90ED

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Formation & memory

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How 郭 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A tall building 享 at the edge of a city 阝

Components 享阝

How to remember it

outer walls · Heisig RSH #2802

享 enjoy + city walls

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 郭

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
前郭尔罗斯蒙古族自治县	Qián guō ěr Luó sī Měng gǔ zú Zì zhì xiàn	Qian Gorlos Mongol Autonomous County, in Songyuan City 松原市[Song1 yuan2 Shi4], Jilin
前郭尔县	Qián guō ěr Xiàn	see 前郭爾羅斯蒙古族自治縣\|前郭尔罗斯蒙古族自治县[Qian2 guo1 er3 Luo2 si1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
巴音郭楞蒙古自治州	Bā yīn guō léng Měng gǔ Zì zhì zhōu	Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區\|新疆维…
前郭县	Qián guō Xiàn	see 前郭爾羅斯蒙古族自治縣\|前郭尔罗斯蒙古族自治县[Qian2 guo1 er3 Luo2 si1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
前郭尔	Qián guō ěr	see 前郭爾羅斯蒙古族自治縣\|前郭尔罗斯蒙古族自治县[Qian2 guo1 er3 Luo2 si1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
外郭城	wài guō chéng	outer city wall
霍林郭勒市	Huò lín guō lè Shì	Holingol, a county-level city in Tongliao City 通遼市\|通辽市[Tong1 liao2 Shi4], Inner Mongolia
郭小川	Guō Xiǎo chuān	Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long…
霍林郭勒	Huò lín guō lè	see 霍林郭勒市[Huo4 lin2 guo1 le4 Shi4]
郭子仪	Guō Zǐ yí	Guo Ziyi (697–781), Tang dynasty general who helped suppress the An Lushan Rebellion and s…
南郭	Nán guō	two-character surname Nanguo
城郭	chéng guō	a city wall
郭城	guō chéng	outer city wall
锡林郭勒	Xī lín guō lè	see 錫林郭勒盟\|锡林郭勒盟[Xi1 lin2 guo1 le4 Meng2]
东郭	Dōng guō	two-character surname Dongguo
巴音郭楞州	Bā yīn guō léng Zhōu	see 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]
锡林郭勒盟	Xī lín guō lè Méng	Xilingol, league in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 內蒙古自治區\|内蒙古自治区[Nei4 meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4…
郭敬明	Guō Jìng míng	Guo Jingming (1983-), Chinese young-adult fiction writer and teen pop idol
吴郭鱼	wú guō yú	(Tw) tilapia
郭居静	Guō Jū jìng	Lazzaro Cattaneo (1560-1640), Italian Jesuit missionary in China

Sound family

These characters use 郭 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
郭 sound part	guō	city limits; surname
廓	kuò	broad, wide; open; empty; outline