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Weiguo is the Mandarin Pinyin spelling of three Chinese male given names ''(see table)''. All of these names are also spelled Wei-kuo in Mandarin Wade-Giles (used in Taiwan), Wai-kwok in Cantonese pronunciation, or Wee-kok in Minnan pronunciation. These names are popular patriotic names (the second character means "country" or "nation"). In the year of Singapore's independence, many proud parents named their children Weiguo, resulting in confusion for them later in life because so many shared the same name. The name "latitude of the nation" (緯國), paired with a brother named "longitude of the nation" (經國), is an allusion to the classical Chinese phrase ''jīngbāng wěiguó'' (經邦緯國), literally meaning "(to draw) the longitude and latitude of the nation", and metaphorically meaning a person who rules over a nation. Chiang Kai-shek's chosen names for his sons Chiang Wei-kuo and Chiang Ching-kuo are an example of this allusion.〔 People with these names include: *Chiang Wei-kuo (1916–1997), Republic of China general and politician *Lin Weiguo (born 1970), Chinese IM-titled chess player *Nie Weiguo (born 1952), Chinese politician *Lawrence Ng Wai-kwok (伍衛國, born 1954), Hong Kong television actor *Peng Weiguo (born 1971), Chinese football player *Weiguo Sun, president of Xihua University in Chengdu, Sichuan, China since 2009 *Tam Wai-kwok (譚偉國, born 1977), Hong Kong footballer ==See also== *Chinese given name 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Weiguo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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