AQ

See also: aq, .aq, and (aq)

Translingual

Symbol

AQ

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Antarctica.

   Synonym: ATA (alpha-3)

Usage notes

The code covers any territories south of the 60th parallel south.

Anagrams

• QA

English

Proper noun

AQ

1. Initialism of al-Qaida.

Noun

AQ (plural AQs)

1. (American football) Initialism of automatic qualifier. Refers to the NCAA Division I FBS conferences whose champions receive automatic bids to the Bowl Championship Series.
2. Initialism of achievement quotient.
3. Initialism of accomplishment quotient.
4. Initialism of autism quotient (“the score one receives on a self-administered test created in 2001 by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen to test for autism or Asperger's syndrome”).

Anagrams

• Q & A, Q&A, QA

Italian

Proper noun

AQ f

1. Abbreviation of Aquila, L'Aquila (the capital city of Abruzzo)

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• A Q (obsolete)

Etymology

From Chinese 阿Q.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ kwi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ kwɪj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ wɪj˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: a quy

Proper noun

AQ

1. Ah Q; the main character in Lu Xun's The True Story of Ah Q
   • 2019, Đinh Thị Quỳnh Mai, “Mỗi tuần một cuốn sách: AQ CHÍNH TRUYỆN (LỖ TẤN) (A Book Every Week: The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun)”, in Department of Education and Training of Hà Tĩnh Province - hatinh.edu.vn:

     Phép thắng lợi tinh thần là tạo ra những thắng lợi trong tưởng tượng mà thực chất là thất bại. Người khác đánh AQ, AQ bị thua, AQ cho rằng nó đánh mình chẳng khác gì nó đánh bố nó.

     The Method of Psychological Victory is the creation of victories in one's own imagination from defeats in reality. Another man beat Ah Q, Ah Q was defeated; yet Ah Q thought that him beating (Ah Q) was not different from him beating his own father.