Also known as Kwok, Kuo, Gou, Kuok, Kuoc
"Guo", written in Chinese: 郭, is one of the most common Chinese surnames and means "the wall that surrounds a city" in Chinese. It can also be transliterated as Cok, Gou, Quo, Quach, Quek, Que, Keh, Kuo, Kwo, Kuoch, Kok, Koc, Kwee, Kwek, Kwik, Kwok, Kuok, Kuek, Gock, Koay, or Ker. The Korean equivalent is spelled Kwak; the Vietnamese equivalent is Quách.
Key facts
- Surname.name
- Guo
- Surname.image
- 郭姓 - 楷體.svg
- Surname.image_size
- 160
- Surname.caption
- Guo surname in regular script
- Surname.pronunciation
- Guō (Mandarin Pinyin)Gwok3 (Cantonese Jyutping)Koeh / Keh (Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī)
- Surname.language
- Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese
- Surname.languageorigin
- Old Chinese
- Surname.derivation
- State of Western Guo
- Surname.meaning
- "outer city wall"
- Surname.variant
- Kwok, Guok (Cantonese)Guo, Kuo (Mandarin)Kue, Koay, Kwek, Quek, Kwik (Hokkien)Kue, Koay, Quek (Teochew)Kuncoro, Kusuma, Kartono etc. (Indonesia) Kuoch (Khmer - Cambodian)Quách (Vietnamese)Kwak (Korean)Kaku (Japanese)
- Surname.derivative
- Quách, Kwak
- Chinese.c
- 郭
- Chinese.p
- Guō
- Chinese.w
- Kuo1
- Chinese.mc
- /kwɑk̚/
- Chinese.oc zz
- /*kʷaːɡ/
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"Guo", written in Chinese: 郭, is one of the most common Chinese surnames and means "the wall that surrounds a city" in Chinese. It can also be transliterated as Cok, Gou, Quo, Quach, Quek, Que, Keh, Kuo, Kwo, Kuoch, Kok, Koc, Kwee, Kwek, Kwik, Kwok, Kuok, Kuek, Gock, Koay, or Ker. The Korean equivalent is spelled Kwak; the Vietnamese equivalent is Quách.
The different ways of spelling this surname indicate the origin of the family. For example, the Cantonese "Kwok" originated in Hong Kong and the surrounding area. In the Philippines, the spelling is "Que", "Ke", "Quepe", and "Kepa". In 2019, Guo was the 16th most common surname in mainland China.
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