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surname Guo; Guo, a kinship group whose members held dukedoms within the Zhou Dynasty realm, including Western Guo 西虢國|西虢国[xī guó guó] and Eastern Guo 東虢國|东虢国[dōng guó guó]
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Originally, 虢 depicted a hand (爫) and a hand holding a weapon (攴) fighting a tiger (虎). The weapon-holding hand was later reanalyzed as 寸 (hand). The original meaning "to fight a tiger" is now obsolete; the character is used solely as a phonetic loan for the names of several Zhou vassal states, Western Guo, Eastern Guo, and Northern Guo. It never developed extended meanings beyond these historical and geographical references.
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