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Guo Wei

| p = Guō Wēi | w = Kuo¹ Wei¹ | j = Gwok³ Wai¹ | poj = Kok Ui }}

Guo Wei () (10 September 904 – 22 February 954), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou (), was the founding emperor of the Chinese Later Zhou dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, reigning from 951 until his death in 954.

Nicknamed "Sparrow Guo" () after a sparrow-shaped tattoo on his neck, he rose to a high position in the Later Han as an assistant military commissioner. He founded the Later Zhou in 951. Provided by Wikipedia