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Q

See also: q, -q, Ⴍ, q̃, q̇, Q., and Appendix:Variations of "q"

Q U+0051, Q
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
← P
[U+0050] 		Basic Latin R →
[U+0052]
Ｑ U+FF31, Ｑ
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
← Ｐ
[U+FF30] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｒ →
[U+FF32]

TranslingualEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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.

LetterEdit

Q (lower case q)

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

See alsoEdit

SymbolEdit

Q

  1. Abbreviation of quetta-.
  2. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamine.
  3. (physics) Electric charge.
  4. (physics) Dynamic pressure.
  5. (logic, mathematics) Robinson arithmetic.
  6. Quetzal (currency of Guatemala).
  7. (linguistics) A wildcard for a uvular consonant.
    synonyms: sometimes covered by H
  8. (linguistics) Gemination as a phoneme.

DescendantsEdit

  • English: max Q

GalleryEdit

  • Letter styles
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    Uppercase and lowercase versions of Q, in normal and italic type

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    Uppercase and lowercase Q in Fraktur

See alsoEdit

Other representations of Q:

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Latin Q (Q/q)

LetterEdit

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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NumberEdit

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 2Edit

Shortening

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

Q

  1. question or questions
    Q and A
  2. quarter
  3. (electronics) Quality factor
  4. (astronomy) quasar
  5. (sports) qualified
  6. American Library Association abbreviation of quarto (“book size”).
  7. (chess) queen
  8. (card games) queen
  9. (medicine) Alternative letter-case form of q (“every”).
AntonymsEdit
  • (sports): DNQ
  • (science fiction fandom): DNQ
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

Proper nounEdit

Q

  1. The pseudonym of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
  2. (followed by an ayah (verse) number) Quran
  3. (theology) 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)
  5. QAnon (anonymous poster on anonymous online message boards)
    • 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.
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

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.

NounEdit

Q (plural Qs)

  1. (slang) a gadget master, gadget creator

AfarEdit

LetterEdit

Q

  1. The eleventh letter in the Afar alphabet.

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AfrikaansEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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

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NounEdit

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

  1. Q

AzerbaijaniEdit

LetterEdit

Q upper case (lower case q)

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

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BasqueEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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

Usage notesEdit

  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

See alsoEdit

Central FranconianEdit

LetterEdit

Q

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

Usage notesEdit

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

ChineseEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From English cute.

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

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AdjectiveEdit

Q

  1. (slang) cute

Etymology 2Edit

From Min Nan 𩚨 (khiū).

PronunciationEdit

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AdjectiveEdit

Q

  1. (Taiwan, slang, of food) soft and pliable; chewy (like mochi), exhibiting Q texture
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

Euphemistic form of 㞗, 鳩／鸠 (gau1).

PronunciationEdit

InfixEdit

Q

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

Etymology 4Edit

From English cue.

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

Q

  1. (slang) (snooker) cue
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 5Edit

From English quinella.

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

Q

  1. (slang) quinella
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 6Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

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VerbEdit

Q

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

Etymology 7Edit

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

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

Q

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) question (in assignments, tests, exams, etc.)
    你考試通常做long Q先定short Q先㗎？ [Cantonese, trad.]
    你考试通常做long Q先定short Q先㗎？ [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 8Edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

PronunciationEdit

ClassifierEdit

Q

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) Classifier for number of sexual intercourses. (as a measure of pricing in prostitution) (clarification of this definition is needed)

Etymology 9Edit

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

Mandarin quān
From 圈 (quān, “circle”), because the letter Q resembles a circle.
Cantonese neoi5-1
From 女 (neoi5-1, “woman”).
Min Nan khu
From the letter.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

Q

  1. (card games) queen (Classifier: 隻／只; 張／张)

See alsoEdit

Dialectal synonyms of 圈兒 (“queen (playing cards)”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Mandarin Beijing 疙瘩, 疙瘩包
Luoyang 皮蛋, 十二
Zhengzhou 十二, 圈
Xi'an 圈子
Ürümqi 皮蛋, 圈子
Wuhan 皮蛋, 蛋, 環, 婆婆
Guiyang 蛋, 蛋蛋
Liuzhou 悶, 丘
Xuzhou 皮蛋, 皮球, 球蛋
Yangzhou 皮蛋
Nanjing 皮蛋
Cantonese Guangzhou 女
Hong Kong 女
Taishan 女
Wuzhou 敏
Yulin 敏
Gan Lichuan 皮蛋
Pingxiang 蛋, 皮蛋架架
Hakka Yudu 圈子
Huizhou Jixi 皮蛋
Jin Taiyuan 圈兒
Min Nan Xiamen Q, 卵
Shantou 箍, 𡚸, 妹
Wu Shanghai 皮蛋
Shanghai (Chongming) 皮蛋
Suzhou 蛋, 皮蛋
Ningbo 皮蛋, 蛋

Etymology 10Edit

Pronunciation 1Edit

Note: Realised as one syllable with the former's /ɜ/ being a placeholder final..
LetterEdit

Q

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2Edit

LetterEdit

Q

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

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

Q (capital, lowercase q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See alsoEdit

  • Previous letter: P
  • Next letter: R

EstonianEdit

 
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LetterEdit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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

Usage notesEdit

  • Used only in foreign words.

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FinnishEdit

LetterEdit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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

Usage notesEdit

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

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GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the German alphabet.

HungarianEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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

DeclensionEdit

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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IdoEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

Q (lower case q)

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

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ItalianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

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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LatinEdit

LetterEdit

Q

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet

ReferencesEdit

  • "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

MalayEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

Q

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

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PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA(key): /ˈke/

LetterEdit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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

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RomaniEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • 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

RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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

Usage notesEdit

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

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SaanichEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

Q

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

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SomaliEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

Q upper case (lower case q)

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

Usage notesEdit

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

See alsoEdit

SpanishEdit

LetterEdit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

  1. the 18th letter of the Spanish alphabet

VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

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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ZuluEdit

LetterEdit

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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

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