漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
郭: enclosure, quarters
Also: fortification, red-light district
JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻏ carries the meaning · 享 is drawn in
11 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
カクkaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 輪郭りんかく
- 外郭団体がいかくだんたいauxiliary organization (organisation)
- 遊郭ゆうかく(licensed) red light district
- 外郭がいかくouter fence; outer enclosure; outer block
- 城郭じょうかくcastle; citadel; fortress
Also read くるわ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Welcome to the village! This "big town" radical brings the feeling of community, borders, and organized civilization to a kanji.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
享
Also built on enjoy (享)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side郭 enclosure · ⻏
vs淳 pure · 氵In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · guō
Same form: 郭 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 郭 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 郭 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin guō most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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