Weiguo

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.