Q

Letter

Q (lower case q)

1. The seventeenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

   Queen, Qualen, Qatarien

Symbol

Q

1. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamine
2. (physics) electric charge
3. (logic, mathematics) Robinson arithmetic

Gallery

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

See also

Other representations of Q:

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Letter

Q

1. The eleventh letter in the Afar alphabet.

See Also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, T t, S s, E e, C c, K k, X x, I i, D d, Q q, R r, F f, G g, O o, L l, M m, N n, U u, W w, H h, Y y

Letter

(transliteration needed) (Stokoe Q)

1. The letter Q

Letter

Q upper case (lower case q)

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

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From English cute.

Etymology 2

From Min Nan 𩚨 (khiū).

Etymology 3

Euphemistic form of 鳩／鸠 (jiū).

Etymology 4

From English cue.

Etymology 5

From English quinella.

Etymology 6

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

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ky/

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Letter

Q (capital, lowercase q)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: P
• Next letter: R

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuː/
• Homophone: Kuh
• Rhymes: -uː

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

1. The seventeenth letter of the German alphabet.

Pronunciation

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

Letter

Q (lower case q)

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

Pronunciation

• (name of letter) IPA^(key): /ku/
• (phoneme, always found before U) IPA^(key): /kw/

Letter

Q m, f (invariable, lower case q)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) lettera; A a (À à), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é, È è), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Πî, J j, K k), L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ò ò), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù), V v (W w, X x, Y y), Z z
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Letter

Q

1. The seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet

References

• 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

Pronunciation

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

Letter

Q

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

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʷʼ/

Letter

Q

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

Pronunciation

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

Letter

Q upper case (lower case q)

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

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

1. The 18th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ku˧˧], [kwi˧˧], [kwəː˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kʊw˧˧], [kwɪj˧˧], [kwəː˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kʊw˧˧], [wɪj˧˧], [wəː˨˩]
• Phonetic: cu, quy, quờ

Letter

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.

Letter

Q (upper case, lower case q)

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