Q U+0051, Q
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
P
[U+0050]
Basic Latin R
[U+0052]
U+FF31, Q
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q

[U+FF30]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF32]

Translingual edit

 
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Etymology edit

From the Etruscan letter 𐌒 (q, cu), from the Ancient Greek letter Ϙ (Q, qoppa), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤒 (q, qop), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓃻.

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Q (lower case q)

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

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Q

  1. Abbreviation of quetta-.
  2. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamine.
  3. (chemistry, hypothetical) quadrium
  4. (physics) Electric charge.
  5. (physics) Dynamic pressure.
  6. (logic, mathematics) Robinson arithmetic.
  7. Quetzal (currency of Guatemala).
  8. (linguistics) A wildcard for a uvular consonant.
    Synonym: H (sometimes covers any guttural consonant)
  9. (linguistics, Japanese) Gemination as a phoneme.
    Synonyms: ,

Descendants edit

  • English: max Q

Gallery edit

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Other representations of Q:

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Latin Q (Q/q)

Letter edit

Q (upper case, lower case q, plural Qs or Q's)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.
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Number edit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The ordinal number seventeenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2 edit

Shortening

Pronunciation edit

(Name of letter:)

Noun edit

Q

  1. Abbreviation of question or questions.
  2. Abbreviation of quarter.
  3. (electronics) Short for Q factor (quality factor).
  4. (astronomy) Abbreviation of quasar.
  5. (sports) Abbreviation of qualified.
    Antonym: DNQ
  6. American Library Association abbreviation of quarto (book size).
  7. (card games, chess) Abbreviation of queen.
  8. (medicine) Alternative letter-case form of q (every).
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Q

  1. (literature, pseudonym) Arthur Quiller-Couch.
  2. (Islam, followed by an ayah (verse) number) Abbreviation of Quran.
  3. (theology, Christianity) The hypothetical common source (logion collection) of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (from German Quelle (source)); all the non-Marcan shared material 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, page 103:
      In comparing Q 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 in Q.
  4. (US politics) Abbreviation of QAnon (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”, in New York[1], archived from the original on 26 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”, in The 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”, in Vox[3], archived from the original on 7 March 2019:
      At the end of her report, Coaston concluded, “Most people have never heard of QAnon, or Q — 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 edit

From James Bond films, the quartermaster being codenamed Q, from the novels by Ian Flemming, where he created Q-branch, which creates secret devices hidden in plain sight, named after Q-ships, heavily armed merchantmen that look like normal merchantmen.

Noun edit

Q (plural Qs)

  1. (slang) A gadget master, gadget creator.

Afar edit

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Q

  1. The eleventh letter in the Afar alphabet.

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Afrikaans edit

Pronunciation edit

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Noun edit

Q (plural Q's, diminutive Q'tjie)

  1. Q

Albanian edit

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Q (lower case q)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Azerbaijani edit

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Q upper case (lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Basque edit

Pronunciation edit

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Basque alphabet, called ku and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

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Central Franconian edit

Letter edit

Q

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

Usage notes edit

  • Only used in the digraph qu for /kʋ/. The Dutch-based spelling uses kw instead.

Chinese edit

Etymology 1 edit

From English cute.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

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Adjective edit

Q

  1. (informal) cute
Derived terms edit
  • QQ (Cantonese)
  • Q版 (kiù bǎn)

Etymology 2 edit

From Hokkien 𩚨 (khiū).

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Adjective edit

Q

  1. (Taiwan, informal, of food) soft and pliable; chewy (like mochi), exhibiting Q texture
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

Euphemistic form of (gau1).

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Infix edit

Q

  1. (Cantonese, vulgar, euphemistic) fucking; bloody; damn
    Q [Cantonese, trad.]
    Q [Cantonese, simp.]
    do1 kiu1 jyu4 [Jyutping]
    freaking unnecessary
    Q [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
    do1 kiu1 si6 [Jyutping]
    freaking nosy

Etymology 4 edit

From English cue.

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

Q

  1. (informal) (snooker) cue
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Classifier edit

Q

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, figuratively) Classifier for number of sexual intercourses. (as a measure of pricing in prostitution) (clarification of this definition is needed)
Derived terms edit
  • 孖Q (maa1 kiu1) (Cantonese)

Etymology 5 edit

From English quinella.

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

Q

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

Etymology 6 edit

From QQ, an adaptation of ICQ, another instant messaging program.

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Verb edit

Q

  1. (informal) to use QQ, the popular Chinese instant messaging program

Etymology 7 edit

From clipping of English question. Orthography is from English Q (question).

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Noun edit

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 long1 kwet1 sin1 ding6 sot1 kwet1 sin1 gaa3? [Jyutping]
    In exams, which of the following would you usually work on first, long questions or short questions?

Etymology 8 edit

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.

Pronunciation edit


Noun edit

Q

  1. (card games) queen (Classifier: ; )

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Etymology 9 edit

Pronunciation 1 edit


Letter edit

Q

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2 edit


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Q

  1. The seventeenth letter used in Pinyin.
Usage notes edit
  • 《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).

Compounds edit

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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 edit

 
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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called kuu and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

  • Used only in foreign words.

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Finnish edit

Etymology edit

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. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and Q for information on the development of the glyph itself.

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called kuu and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

  • Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords qu is replaced with kv.

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German edit

Pronunciation edit

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the German alphabet.

Hungarian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈk]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈkuː]

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. A letter of the extended Hungarian alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Q Q-k
accusative Q-t Q-kat
dative Q-nak Q-knak
instrumental Q-val Q-kkal
causal-final Q-ért Q-kért
translative Q-vá Q-kká
terminative Q-ig Q-kig
essive-formal Q-ként Q-kként
essive-modal
inessive Q-ban Q-kban
superessive Q-n Q-kon
adessive Q-nál Q-knál
illative Q-ba Q-kba
sublative Q-ra Q-kra
allative Q-hoz Q-khoz
elative Q-ból Q-kból
delative Q-ról Q-król
ablative Q-tól Q-któl
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Q-é Q-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Q-éi Q-kéi
Possessive forms of Q
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Q-m Q-im
2nd person sing. Q-d Q-id
3rd person sing. Q-ja Q-i
1st person plural Q-nk Q-ink
2nd person plural Q-tok Q-itok
3rd person plural Q-juk Q-ik

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Ido edit

Pronunciation edit

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

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Q (lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Inupiaq edit

Pronunciation edit

  1. IPA(key): /q/

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Q (lower case q)

  1. A letter of the Inupiaq alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • (letter name) IPA(key): **/ˈku/*
    • Rhymes: -u
  • (phonemic realization; almost always found before u, where it forms the pronunciation /kw/) IPA(key): /k/

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Q f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case q)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called cu and written in the Latin script.

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Kwak'wala edit

Alternative forms edit

  • in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwak'wala)

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Q (lower case q)

  1. (Liqʼwala dialect) A letter of the Kwak'wala alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Latin edit

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Q

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet

References edit

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

Malay edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • (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 seventeenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Norwegian edit

Pronunciation edit

Omonyms: ku (Nynorsk), ku (Bokmål)

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Q (upper case Q, lower case q)

  1. the 17th letter of the Norwegian alphabet

Usage notes edit

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 edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA(key): /ˈke/

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romani edit

Pronunciation edit

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

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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 edit

  • 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, page 15

Romanian edit

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called chiu and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

  • Used chiefly in loanwords.
  • The digraph qu is pronounced /kw/, /kv/, or /kʲ/.

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Saanich edit

Pronunciation edit

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Q

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Somali edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɢ/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɢɑːf/

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Q upper case (lower case q)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, called qaaf and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by F and followed by K.

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Spanish edit

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. the 18th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish Q. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English Q.
  • Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish Q.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: Q
  • (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA(key): /ˈkju/, [ˈkju]
  • (letter name, Abecedario): IPA(key): /ˈku/, [ˈku]
  • (phoneme, usually together with u): IPA(key): /k/, [k]
  • (phoneme, before u, English unadapted loanwords): IPA(key): /kw/, [kw]
  • Rhymes: -u

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Q (upper case, lower case q, Baybayin spelling ᜃ᜔ᜌᜓ)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called kyu and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

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

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Letter edit

Q (upper case, lower case q, Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓ)

  1. (historical) The twentieth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called cu and written in the Latin script.

Further reading edit

  • Q”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Vietnamese edit

Pronunciation edit

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called cu, quy, or quờ and written in the Latin script.

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Zulu edit

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Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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