Clipping ofEnglishQuechua orSpanishquechua, fromQuechuaqhichwa.
qu
- (international standards)ISO 639-1language code forQuechua.
From theHanyu Pinyin romanization of theMandarin區 /区.
qu (pluralqus)
- (China) Anadministrativesubdivision ofChinaroughlyequivalent todistricts,distinguished from themorerural "counties" (xian).
[1973,Survey of China Mainland Press[1], numbers5308-5345,→ISSN,→OCLC, page52:[…]the Party committee of Peiyuanmen commune of Lienhuch'u in Sian municipality has since the year before last set up outside-school cultural activity centers in the commune headquarters and in various neighborhood committees.]
1990, Barrett L. McCormick, “Elections to Local People's Congresses”, inPolitical Reform in Post-Mao China: Democracy and Bureaucracy in a Leninist State[2],University of California Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page138:At the time of the elections (1980) Nanjing was subdivided into three suburban counties (xian) and nine urban districts (qu).
2009, Roger Des Forges, “Tales of Three City Walls in China's Central Plain”, inChinese Walls in Time and Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective,→ISBN,→ISSN,→LCCN,→OCLC,pages60–61:As we have seen, the people of Guide/Shangqiu have traced the history of their city back well before the Ming and especially to the Han period. The People's Republic has recognized that heritage by naming the district subordinate to Shangqiu city the Liangyuanqu (Liang Garden District) and the district subordinate to Guide the Suiyangqu (Suiyang District) (see Map 3).
FromProto-Common Turkic*quɣu(“swan”), fromProto-Turkic*kugu(“swan”).
qu (definite accusativequnu,pluralqular)
- swan
- Synonym:qu quşu
qu m (pluralqus)
- alternative spelling ofku
qu (qu5 /qu0,Zhuyin˙ㄑㄩ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of戌
qu
- nonstandard spelling ofqū
- nonstandard spelling ofqú
- nonstandard spelling ofqǔ
- nonstandard spelling ofqù
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
qu (lower case,upper caseQU,mixed caseQu)
- adigraph from the lettersq andu
