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See also:q,-q,,,,Q.,andAppendix:Variations of "q"
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QU+0051,Q
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
P
[U+0050]
Basic LatinR
[U+0052]
Character variations
U+FF31,Q
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q

[U+FF30]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF32]
Depending on the typeface, the tail of theQ may cross the bowl.

Translingual

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

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From theEtruscan letter𐌒 (q, cu), from theAncient Greek letterϘ (Q, qoppa), derived from thePhoenician letter𐤒 (q, qop), from theEgyptian hieroglyph𓃻.

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Q (lower caseq)

  1. The seventeenth letter of thebasic modern Latin alphabet.
    Queen,Qualen,Qatarien

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Symbol

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Q

  1. Abbreviation ofquetta-.
  2. (biochemistry)IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation forglutamine.
  3. (chemistry, hypothetical)quadrium
  4. (physics)Electric charge.
    Alternative form:q
  5. (physics)Dynamic pressure.
    Alternative form:q
  6. (logic, mathematics)Robinson arithmetic.
  7. Quetzal (currency ofGuatemala).
  8. (linguistics) Awildcard for auvular consonant.
    Synonym:H(sometimes covers anyguttural consonant)
  9. (linguistics, Japanese)Gemination as aphoneme.
    Synonyms:(),()

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  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of Q, in normal and italic type
    Uppercase and lowercase versions ofQ, in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase Q in Fraktur
    Uppercase and lowercaseQ inFraktur

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English

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Etymology 1

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Latin Q(Q/q)

Letter

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Q (upper case,lower caseq,pluralQsorQ's)

  1. The seventeenthletter of the Englishalphabet, calledcue and written in theLatin script.
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Number

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. Theordinal numberseventeenth, derived from thisletter of the Englishalphabet, calledcue and written in theLatin script.

Etymology 2

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Shortening

Pronunciation

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(Name of letter:)

Noun

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Q (countable anduncountable,pluralQs)

  1. Abbreviation ofquestion andquestions.
  2. Abbreviation ofquarter.
    1. (slang, UK) Aquarterounce of adrug.
      • 2023 June 1,Dave,Central Cee, Jim Legxacy, Jo Caleb, Jonny Leslie, Kyle Evans, “Sprinter” (track 2), inSplit Decision, performed by Dave and Central Cee, Neighbourhood; Live Yours:
        Yeah,alright, started with aQ, didn't wait in line
  3. (electronics)Short forQ factor(quality factor).
  4. (astronomy)Abbreviation ofquasar.
  5. (sports)Abbreviation ofqualified.
    Antonym:DNQ
  6. American Library Associationabbreviation ofquarto(book size).
  7. (card games, chess)Abbreviation ofqueen.
  8. (medicine)Alternativeletter-case form ofq(every).
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Translations
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playing card

Proper noun

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Q

  1. (literature, pseudonym)Arthur Quiller-Couch.
  2. (Islam, followed by anayah (verse) number)Abbreviation ofQuran.
  3. (theology, Christianity) Thehypothetical commonsource (logion collection) of theGospels ofMatthew andLuke (from GermanQuelle(source)); all the non-Marcan sharedmaterial in those gospels(not always considered a single document)
    • 2006, Brian Han Gregg,The Historical Jesus and the Final Judgment Sayings in Q, Mohr Siebeck,→ISBN,page103:
      In comparingQ 10:10–11 and Mark 6:11, there is no reliable way to determine which exact form of the saying is more primitive, the third person account of Mark or the direct speech recorded inQ.
  4. (US politics)Abbreviation ofQAnon(anonymous poster on anonymous online message boards who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory).
    • 2017 December 19, Paris Martineau, “The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse”, inNew York[1], archived fromthe original on26 December 2018:
      In this fantasy world, all of the far right’s wildest dreams come true:Q promises that Clinton, Obama, Podesta, Abedin, and even McCain are all either arrested and wearing secret police-issued ankle monitors, or just about to be indicted; that the Steele dossier is a total fabrication personally paid for by Clinton and Obama; and that the Las Vegas massacre was most definitely an inside job connected to the Saudi-Clinton cabal.
    • 2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, inThe Guardian[2]:
      In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts,Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.
    • 2019 March 6, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How a conspiracy theory about Democrats drinking children’s blood topped Amazon’s best-sellers list”, inVox[3], archived fromthe original on7 March 2019:
      At the end of her report, Coaston concluded, “Most people have never heard of QAnon, orQ — and that includes most of Donald Trump’s supporters.” That’s still the case, but the fact that this book is at the top of some of Amazon’s most prominent recommendation lists means that a far larger share of the population will — at a minimum — stumble across these ideas.
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Etymology 3

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From James Bond films, thequartermaster beingcodenamedQ, from the novels by Ian Flemming, where he createdQ-branch, which creates secret devices hidden in plain sight, named afterQ-ships, heavily armed merchantmen that look like normal merchantmen.

Noun

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Q (pluralQs)

  1. (slang) Agadget master, gadget creator.

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Afar

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Q

  1. The eleventh letter in the Afar alphabet.

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Afrikaans

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. The seventeenthletter of the Afrikaansalphabet, written in theLatin script.

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Noun

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Q (pluralQ's,diminutiveQ'tjie)

  1. Q

Albanian

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Q (lower caseq)

  1. The twenty-thirdletter of the Albanianalphabet, written in theLatin script.

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Azerbaijani

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Letter

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Qupper case (lower caseq)

  1. The seventeenthletter of the Azerbaijanialphabet, written in theLatin script.

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Basque

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. The eighteenthletter of the Basquealphabet, calledku and written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

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Catalan

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. The seventeenthletter of the Catalanalphabet, calledcu and written in theLatin script.

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Central Franconian

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Letter

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Q

  1. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes

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  • Only used in the digraphqu for/kʋ/. The Dutch-based spelling useskw instead.

Chinese

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Etymology 1

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FromEnglish cute.

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Adjective

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Q

  1. (informal)cute
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Etymology 2

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FromHokkien𩚨(khiū).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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Q

  1. (Taiwan, informal, of food)soft andpliable;chewy (likemochi), exhibitingQ texture
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Etymology 3

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Euphemistic form of /(gau1).

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Infix

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Q

  1. (Cantonese, vulgar, euphemistic)fucking;bloody;damn
    Q[Cantonese,trad.]
    Q[Cantonese,simp.]
    do1kiu1 jyu4[Jyutping]
    freaking unnecessary
    Q[Cantonese,trad. andsimp.]
    do1kiu1 si6[Jyutping]
    freaking nosy
    Q[Cantonese,trad.]
    Q[Cantonese,simp.]
    maa4kiu1 faan4[Jyutping]
    freaking troublesome

Etymology 4

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FromEnglish cue.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Q

  1. (informal) (snooker)cue
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Classifier

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Q

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, figuratively)Classifier fornumber ofsexual intercourses.(as a measure of pricing inprostitution)(clarification of this definition is needed)
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  • 孖Q(maa1 kiu1)(Cantonese)

Etymology 5

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FromEnglish quinella.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Q

  1. (informal)quinella
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  • 孖Q(maa1 kiu1)(Cantonese)

Etymology 6

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FromQQ, anadaptation ofICQ, anotherinstant messaging program.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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Q

  1. (informal) to useQQ, the popular Chineseinstant messaging program

Etymology 7

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From clipping ofEnglish question. Orthography is fromEnglish Q (question).

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Noun

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Q

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese)question(in assignments, tests, exams, etc.)(Classifier:c)
    考試通常long Qshort Q[Cantonese,trad.]
    考试通常long Qshort Q[Cantonese,simp.]
    nei5 haau2 si3 tung1 soeng4 zou6 long1kwet1 sin1 ding6 sot1kwet1 sin1 gaa3?[Jyutping]
    In exams, which of the following would you usually work on first, longquestions or shortquestions?

Etymology 8

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From the letter Q of the English pattern playing cards. Various names exist for this symbol in the spoken language.

Mandarin
From(quān,circle), because the letter Q resembles a circle.
Cantonese
From(neoi5-1,woman).
Hokkien
From the letter.

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Noun

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Q

  1. (card games)queen(Classifier:; )

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Dialectal synonyms of圈兒 (“queen (playing cards)”)[map]
VarietyLocationWords
Northeastern MandarinBeijing疙瘩,疙瘩包
Central Plains MandarinLuoyang皮蛋,十二
Zhengzhou十二,
Xi'an圈子
Xuzhou皮蛋,皮球,球蛋
Lanyin MandarinÜrümqi皮蛋,圈子
Southwestern MandarinWuhan皮蛋,,,婆婆
Guiyang,蛋蛋
Liuzhou,
Jianghuai MandarinNanjing皮蛋
Yangzhou皮蛋
CantoneseGuangzhou
Hong Kong
Taishan
Nanning
Nanning(Tanka)
Wuzhou
Yulin
GanNanchang皮蛋
Pengze
Lichuan皮蛋
Pingxiang,皮蛋架架
HakkaYudu圈子
HuizhouJixi皮蛋
JinTaiyuan圈兒
Southern MinXiamenQ,
Shantou,𡚸,
Puning
WuShanghai皮蛋
Shanghai(Chongming)皮蛋
Suzhou,皮蛋
Ningbo皮蛋,

Etymology 9

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Pronunciation 1

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Q

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

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Q

  1. The seventeenth letter used inPinyin.
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  • 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
  • The pronunciations above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Q (capital, lowercase q)

  1. the seventeenth letter of the Dutch alphabet

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  • Previous letter:P
  • Next letter:R

Estonian

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EstonianWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediaet

Letter

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. The seventeenthletter of the Estonianalphabet, calledkuu and written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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  • Used only in foreign words.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. Seethe Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, andQ for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Letter

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. The seventeenthletter of the Finnishalphabet, calledkuu and written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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  • Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwordsqu is replaced withkv.

Derived terms

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compounds

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German

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Letter

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the German alphabet.

Heiltsuk

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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Q (lower caseq)

  1. Aletter of the Heiltsukalphabet, written in theLatin script.

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. A letter of the extended Hungarianalphabet, called and written in theLatin script.

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singularplural
nominativeQQ-k
accusativeQ-tQ-kat
dativeQ-nakQ-knak
instrumentalQ-valQ-kkal
causal-finalQ-értQ-kért
translativeQ-váQ-kká
terminativeQ-igQ-kig
essive-formalQ-kéntQ-kként
essive-modal
inessiveQ-banQ-kban
superessiveQ-nQ-kon
adessiveQ-nálQ-knál
illativeQ-baQ-kba
sublativeQ-raQ-kra
allativeQ-hozQ-khoz
elativeQ-bólQ-kból
delativeQ-rólQ-król
ablativeQ-tólQ-któl
non-attributive
possessive – singular
Q-éQ-ké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
Q-éiQ-kéi
Possessive forms ofQ
possessorsingle possessionmultiple possessions
1st person sing.Q-mQ-im
2nd person sing.Q-dQ-id
3rd person sing.Q-jaQ-i
1st person pluralQ-nkQ-ink
2nd person pluralQ-tokQ-itok
3rd person pluralQ-jukQ-ik

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Ido

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Pronunciation

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  • (always found before the letterU)IPA(key): /kw/

Letter

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Q (lower case q)

  1. The seventeenthletter of the Idoalphabet, written in theLatin script.

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Inupiaq

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Pronunciation

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  1. IPA(key): /q/

Letter

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Q (lower caseq)

  1. Aletter of the Inupiaqalphabet, written in theLatin script.

Italian

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ItalianWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediait

Pronunciation

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Letter

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Q f orm (invariable,upper case,lower caseq)

  1. The fifteenthletter of the Italianalphabet, calledcu and written in theLatin script.

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Kankanaey

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromTagalogQ. Letter pronunciation is influenced byEnglishQ.

Pronunciation

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  • (letter name)IPA(key): /ˈkju/[ˈk̠ju]
  • (phoneme)IPA(key): /k/[k̠̚]

Letter

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. The nineteenthletter of the Kankanaeyalphabet, calledkyu and written in theLatin script.

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References

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  • Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016)Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy [Kankanaey Orthography]‎[4] (in Kankanaey and Tagalog),→ISBN, pages10-11

Kwak'wala

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Alternative forms

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  • in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwak'wala)

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Letter

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Q (lower caseq)

  1. (Liqʼwala dialect)Aletter of the Kwak'walaalphabet, written in theLatin script.

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Latin

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Letter

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Q

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet

References

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  • "Q", inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Q inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Malay

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MalayWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediams

Pronunciation

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  • (Name of letter)IPA(key): [kiu],[kju]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial)IPA(key): [q],[k]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final)IPA(key): [k̚]

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Q

  1. The seventeenthletter of the Malayalphabet, written in theLatin script.

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Norwegian

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Pronunciation

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Omonyms:ku(Nynorsk),ku(Bokmål)

Letter

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Q (upper case Q, lower case q)

  1. the 17th letter of the Norwegian alphabet

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Only in loan words and foreign names. Also used in old inscriptions and texts, e.g.kv >qu. Used in the same way in some surnames. In the neo-runic inscriptions from 17-19 centuries may be written as ᛩ.

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ˈke/

Letter

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. The seventeenthletter of the Portuguesealphabet, written in theLatin script.

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Romani

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (after n)/ɡ/,(after any other letter)/k/

Letter

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. (International Standard)Used to represent the dative and genitive cases.

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References

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  • Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “-q-”, inニューエクスプレス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha,→ISBN, page15

Romanian

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. The twentiethletter of the Romanianalphabet, calledchiu and written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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  • Used chiefly in loanwords.
  • Thedigraphqu is pronounced/kw/,/kv/, or/kʲ/.

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Saanich

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Q

  1. The twenty-fifthletter of the Saanichalphabet, written in theLatin script.

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Somali

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Qupper case (lower caseq)

  1. The fifteenthletter of the Somalialphabet, calledqaaf and written in theLatin script.

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  1. The fifteenth letter of theSomali alphabet, which followsArabicabjad order. It is preceded byF and followed byK.

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Spanish

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Letter

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. the 18th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Usage notes

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Although Q is part of the Spanish alphabet, it is only used in the QU digraph, and outside the QU digraph in foreign words.

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromSpanishQ. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced byEnglishQ.
  • Abecedario pronunciation is fromSpanishQ.

Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈkju/[ˈkju](letter name, Filipino alphabet)
    • IPA(key): /ˈku/[ˈku](letter name, Abecedario)
    • IPA(key): /k/[k](phoneme, usually together with u)
    • IPA(key): /ˈku/[ˈku](phoneme, before u, English unadapted loanwords)

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Q (upper case,lower caseq,Baybayin spellingᜃ᜔ᜌᜓ)

  1. The nineteenthletter of the Tagalogalphabet (theFilipino alphabet), calledkyu and written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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  • This letter is mostly used only in proper nouns, unadapted loanwords, or Spanish-based spellings.

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Letter

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Q (upper case,lower caseq,Baybayin spellingᜃᜓ)

  1. (historical)The twentiethletter of the Tagalogalphabet (theAbecedario), calledcu and written in theLatin script.

Further reading

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  • Q”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018

Vietnamese

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. The twenty-firstletter of the Vietnamesealphabet, calledcu,quy, orquờ and written in theLatin script.

Noun

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Q

  1. Abbreviation ofquận(urban district in Vietnam).

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Võro

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Letter

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Q (lowercaseq)

  1. Theletter of the Võroalphabet, written in theLatin script.

Zulu

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Letter

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Q (upper case,lower caseq)

  1. The seventeenthletter of the Zulualphabet, written in theLatin script.

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