Chinese Character Wiki
虢

guó

name of ancient feudal State in Shenxi and Hunan

Original meaning: 

to fight a tiger

Depicts a hand (爪) and a hand holding a weapon (攴) fighting with a tiger (虎). The component 攴 was later reanalyzed as 寸 (hand). Based on the original meaning "to fight a tiger". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
爪 iconic component

爪  Iconic component

zhǎo, zhuǎ

  

hand, claw

寸 iconic component

寸  Iconic component

cùn

  

(hand), inch

Originally 攴, which depicts a hand holding a weapon. Later reanalyzed as 寸 (hand).

虎 iconic component

虎  Iconic component

hǔ

  

tiger

Evolution

虢 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
虢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
虢 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
虢 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

虢  

guó

name of ancient feudal State in Shenxi and Hunan

虢  

Guó

Guo, a kinship group whose members held dukedoms within the Zhou Dynasty realm, including Western Guo 西虢國|西虢国 and Eastern Guo 東虢國|东虢国; surname Guo

Most common words with 虢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

虢

surname Guo

假途灭虢

lit. a short-cut to crush Guo (idiom); fig. to connive with sb to damage a third party, then turn on the partner

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷˤrak

kwaek

guó

(place name)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4827th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+8662

Shuowen

“虢，虎所攫畫明文也。从虎，寽聲。”


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