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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[Xi1 Guo2 guo2] and Eastern Guo 東虢國|东虢国[Dong1 Guo2 guo2]
Trad. 假途滅虢
- lit. a short-cut to crush Guo (idiom); fig. to connive with sb to damage a third party, then turn on the partner
- to obtain safe passage to conquer the State of Guo
- to borrow the resources of an ally to attack a common enemy (idiom)
