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Q is the seventeenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cue (IPA: /kju/).^[1] Q is the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Image File history File links Latin_alphabet_Qq. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... For other uses of A, see A (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up C, c in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see D (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see E (disambiguation). ... Look up F, f in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see G (disambiguation). ... Look up H, h in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up I, i in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see J (disambiguation). ... Look up K, k in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see L (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see M (disambiguation). ... Look up N, n in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up O, o in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the Latin alphabet letter. ... Look up R, r in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up S, s in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see T (disambiguation). ... For other uses of U, see U (disambiguation). ... Look up V, v in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up W, w in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see X (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up Z, z in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

History

The Semitic sound value of Qôp (perhaps originally qaw cord of wool, and possibly based on an Egyptian hieroglyph) was /q/ (voiceless uvular plosive), a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones. In Greek, this sign as Qoppa Ϙ probably came to represent several labialized velar plosives, among them /kʷ/ and /kʷʰ/. As a result of later sound shifts, these sounds in Greek changed to /p/ and /pʰ/ respectively. Therefore, Qoppa was transformed into two letters: Qoppa, which stood for a number only, and Phi Φ which stood for the aspirated sound /pʰ/ that came to be pronounced /f/ in Modern Greek. The Etruscans used Q only in conjunction with V to represent /kʷ/. Image File history File links PhoenicianQ-01. ... Image File history File links EtruscanQ-01. ... Image File history File links GreekQ-01. ... 14th century BC diplomatic letter in Akkadian, found in Tell Amarna. ... Qoph or Qop is the nineteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet (in abjadi order). ... It has been suggested that Hieroglyph (French Wiki article) be merged into this article or section. ... The voiceless uvular plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Qoppa Qoppa is an obsolete letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 90. ... A labiovelar sound is one produced with the lips and velum simultaneously. ... A stop or plosive or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract. ... Look up Î¦, Ï† in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Etruscan civilization existed in Etruria and the Po valley in the northern part of what is now Italy, prior to the formation of the Roman Republic. ...

Usage

In most modern western languages written in Latin script, such as in Romance and Germanic languages, Q appears almost exclusively in the digraph QU, though see Q without U. In English this digraph most often denotes the cluster /kw/, except in borrowings from French where it represents /k/ as in plaque. In Italian qu represents [kw] (where [w] is an allophone of /u/); in German, /kv/; and in French, Portuguese, Occitan, Spanish, and Catalan, /k/ or /kw/. (In Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan and French, qu replaces c for /k/ before front vowels i and e, since in those contexts c is a fricative and letter 'k' is seldom used outside loan words.) In Albanian, q represents the voiceless palatal plosive, /c/. In the Aymara, Azeri, Greenlandic, Uzbek, Quechua, and Tatar languages, Q is a voiceless uvular plosive. [q] is also used in IPA for the voiceless uvular plosive, as well as in most transliteration schemes of Semitic languages for the "emphatic" qōp sound. The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages, are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire. ... The Germanic languages are a group of related languages constituting a branch of the Indo-European (IE) language family. ... Qwerty, one of the few native English words with q and no u in current usage, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Occitan (IPA AmE: ), known also as Lenga dÃ²c or Langue doc (native name: occitan [1], lenga dÃ²c [2]; native nickname: la lenga nÃ²stra [3] i. ... Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia , and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ... Look up C, c in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up I, i in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see E (disambiguation). ... A loanword (or a borrowing) is a word taken in by one language from another. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara of the Andes. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Quechuan languages. ... The Tatar language (Tatar tele, TatarÃ§a, Ð¢Ð°Ñ‚Ð°Ñ€ Ñ‚ÐµÐ»Ðµ, Ð¢Ð°Ñ‚Ð°Ñ€Ñ‡Ð°) is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars. ... The voiceless uvular plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the â€œInternational Phonetic Alphabetâ€. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... 14th century BC diplomatic letter in Akkadian, found in Tell Amarna. ... Qoph or Qop is the nineteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet (in abjadi order). ...

In Maltese and Võro, Q denotes the glottal stop. The Vyronian language (vÃµro kiil) is a language belonging to the Baltic-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

In Chinese Hanyu Pinyin, Q is used to represent the sound [tɕʰ], which is close to English "ch" in "cheese". Pinyin (拼音, Pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of...

In Fijian, Q represents the prenasalized voiced velar plosive [ŋɡ]. Prenasalized stops are phonetic sequences of nasal plus plosive that behave phonologically like single consonant. ... The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...

In Xhosa and Zulu, Q represents the postalveolar click [kǃ]. For the Xhosa people, see Xhosa. ... Zulu (called isiZulu in Zulu), is a language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa. ... The postalveolar click is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...

Q is rarely seen in a word without a U next to it in English, thus making it the second most rarely used letter in the English language. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

The lowercase Q is usually written as a lowercase O with a line below it, with or without a "tail". It is usually typed without due to the major difference between the tails of the lowercase G and lowercase Q. It is usually written with the tail to distinguish from the G. Unlike the written lowercase G, which has a leftward facing tail, the Q's tail faces right. An example of the lowercase Q written from a keyboard is a "q".

Codes for computing

In Unicode the capital Q is codepoint U+0051 and the lowercase q is U+0071. FAA radiotelephony phonetic alphabet and Morse code chart. ... 1922 Chart of the Morse Code Letters and Numerals Morse code is a method for transmitting telegraphic information, using standardized sequences of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a message. ... Image File history File links ICS_Quebec. ... Image File history File links Semaphore_Quebec. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Braille_Q.svg en: Braille letter/symbol. ... The system of international maritime signal flags is a way of representing individual letters of the alphabet in signals to or from ships. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The American Sign Language Alphabet is a manual alphabet that augments the vocabulary of American Sign Language when spelling individual letters of a word is the preferred or only option, such as with proper names or the titles of works. ... Braille code where the word (, French for first) can be read. ... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ... Majuscules or capital letters (in the Roman alphabet: A, B, C, ...) are one type of case in a writing system. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Letter case. ...

The ASCII code for capital Q is 81 and for lowercase q is 113; or in binary 01010001 and 01110001, correspondingly. Image:ASCII fullsvg There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ... The binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, is a numeral system that represents numeric values using two symbols, usually 0 and 1. ...

The EBCDIC code for capital Q is 216 and for lowercase q is 152. EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) is an 8-bit character encoding (code page) used on IBM mainframe operating systems, like z/OS, OS/390, VM and VSE, as well as IBM minicomputer operating systems like OS/400 and i5/OS. It is also employed on various non-IBM...

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "Q" and "q" for upper and lower case respectively. A numeric character reference (NCR) is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-based markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set (UCS) of Unicode. ... HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ...

Meanings of Q

Trivia

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Abbreviations

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Categories: Articles with trivia sections from September 2007 | Latin letters Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... Qwerty, one of the few native English words with q and no u in current usage, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. ... ISO 646 is an ISO standard that specifies a 7-bit character code from which several national standards are derived, the best known of which is ASCII. Since the portion of ISO 646 shared by all countries specified only the letters used in the English alphabet, other countries using the... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... For other uses of A, see A (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up C, c in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see D (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see E (disambiguation). ... Look up F, f in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see G (disambiguation). ... Look up H, h in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up I, i in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see J (disambiguation). ... Look up K, k in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see L (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see M (disambiguation). ... Look up N, n in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up O, o in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the Latin alphabet letter. ... Look up R, r in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up S, s in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see T (disambiguation). ... For other uses of U, see U (disambiguation). ... Look up V, v in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up W, w in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see X (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up Z, z in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Example of a letter with a diacritic A diacritical mark or diacritic, also called an accent, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Q with hook tail (majuscule: , minuscule: ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. ... QA may stand for: Qatar (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) Quality Assurance, the process or set of processes or measures used to assure the quality of a product. ... QB can refer to: A quarterback in American football The QuickBASIC programming language QuickBooks Accounting Software This is a disambiguation page â€” a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... QC can stand for: Air Corridor IATA airline designator Quezon City, a highly urbanized city in the Republic of the Philippines. ... A Queen Dowager or Dowager Queen is a title or status generally held by the widow of a reigning king. ... QE can stand for: Quadratic equation Quantum economics Quantum efficiency Queen of England Queen Elizabeth See also: QE2. ... For other uses, see Qi (disambiguation). ... ? redirects here. ... QQ is sometimes used on the Internet as an abbreviation for crying; it is supposedly visually similar to two big eyes with tears at the bottom. ... QR may stand for: Quake Rally Qualitative reasoning Queensland Rail Queens Rangers Quick release Quiet Riot QR decomposition the IATA code for Qatar Airways QR may be also the nickname of Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, inc. ... QS is a code for: Smart Wings, IATA airline designator Travel Service (Czech Republic), IATA airline designator QS is an abbreviation for any of the following: Quantity surveyor Queens Scout Queens Serjeant, an obsolete legal position in the United Kingdom Quicksort Quorum sensing QuÃ©bec Solidaire Quadratic Sieve... Qt or QT may stand for: QuickTime a multimedia technology from Apple Computer A quart, a measure of volume within traditional systems of units, equal to 2 pints A quarter, a unit of mass in Imperial units, equal to 2 stones or a quarter of a long hundredweight; one quarter... Qu is a computer programming language, comparable to Python, Ruby, Perl and many others - but much faster and with simpler syntax. ... QV or Qv may stand for: Queen Victoria Village a precinct in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... QW stands for: QuakeWorld Quantum well Quoting words, a Perl string function. ... QA may stand for: Qatar (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) Quality Assurance, the process or set of processes or measures used to assure the quality of a product. ... QB can refer to: A quarterback in American football The QuickBASIC programming language QuickBooks Accounting Software This is a disambiguation page â€” a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... QC can stand for: Air Corridor IATA airline designator Quezon City, a highly urbanized city in the Republic of the Philippines. ... A Queen Dowager or Dowager Queen is a title or status generally held by the widow of a reigning king. ... QE can stand for: Quadratic equation Quantum economics Quantum efficiency Queen of England Queen Elizabeth See also: QE2. ... QF may stand for: Qantas, the oldest and largest airline of Australia Quick firing, a british artillery term Quality factor is a measure of the quality of a resonant system. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Air Florida (IATA: QH, ICAO: FLA, and Callsign: Palm) was a small U.S. and international airline based out of Miami International Airport. ... For other uses, see Qi (disambiguation). ... QJ may mean: QJ, a service on the J-Z (New York City Subway service) QJ, a UHF band frequency - see IMTS Frequencies QJ/WIN, codename for secret agent Sidney Gottlieb QJ, Quick Junction - a connection method for gas hoses or electrical wiring QJ - Quick Journal - 24/7 News, Tech... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Induction lighting or inductive lighting is a means of lighting, which uses RF induction of radio waves to produce luminescence. ... QM may stand for: Short for ITVs Quiz game show that is Quizmania. ... Queer Nation was a gay group founded in March 1990 in New York City, USA by activists from ACT-UP. The founders were four victims of anti-gay violence. ... ? redirects here. ... QP can refer to: Qatar Petroleum, an oil and gas company in Qatar Qp-Crazy, a Japanese Hardcore Punk, Industrial Metal band Qp digraph, a ligature of Latin Quadratic programming, a special type of mathematical optimization problem Qualified Person, a technical term used in European Union pharmaceutical regulation Quarter Pounder... QQ is sometimes used on the Internet as an abbreviation for crying; it is supposedly visually similar to two big eyes with tears at the bottom. ... QR may stand for: Quake Rally Qualitative reasoning Queensland Rail Queens Rangers Quick release Quiet Riot QR decomposition the IATA code for Qatar Airways QR may be also the nickname of Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, inc. ... QS is a code for: Smart Wings, IATA airline designator Travel Service (Czech Republic), IATA airline designator QS is an abbreviation for any of the following: Quantity surveyor Queens Scout Queens Serjeant, an obsolete legal position in the United Kingdom Quicksort Quorum sensing QuÃ©bec Solidaire Quadratic Sieve... Qt or QT may stand for: QuickTime a multimedia technology from Apple Computer A quart, a measure of volume within traditional systems of units, equal to 2 pints A quarter, a unit of mass in Imperial units, equal to 2 stones or a quarter of a long hundredweight; one quarter... Qu is a computer programming language, comparable to Python, Ruby, Perl and many others - but much faster and with simpler syntax. ... QV or Qv may stand for: Queen Victoria Village a precinct in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... QW stands for: QuakeWorld Quantum well Quoting words, a Perl string function. ... Horizon Air is a regional airline subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group, parent to both Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. ... EAT/DHL Boeing 757 freighter European Air Transport is a cargo airline based in Brussels, Belgium. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This page refers to Q1, a residential tower on the Gold Coast, Australia. ... Q2 can refer to: The second quarter of a fiscal year The second quartile in descriptive statistics The episode Q2 in the Star Trek: Voyager television series The character Q2 in the Star Trek: Voyager episode of the same name The video game Quake II This is a disambiguation page... Q3 can refer to: The third quarter of a fiscal year The third quartile in descriptive statistics Quake 3 Arena This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Q4 refers to the fourth quarter of a fiscal year. ... Q5 can mean many things, including: Q5 (now called Nightshade) is a Heavy Metal band Q5 was also a British television program, running from 1969 to 1980. ... Q6 was the name of the second series of Spike Milligans Q series, originally aired in 1975. ... Milligan in costume for his Q series. ... Milligan in costume for his Q series. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Air Cargo Carriers (IATA: 2Q, ICAO: SNC, and Callsign: Night Cargo) is a cargo airline based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It was established in 1986 and operates scheduled feeder cargo services for two major air carriers in the USA. It also provides on-demand charter services for both cargo and... China Yunnan Airlines (Chinese: é›²å—èˆªç©ºå…¬å¸; pinyin: YÃºnnÃ¡n HÃ¡ngkÅng GÅngsÄ«) is an airline based in the Peoples Republic of China. ... Slovak Airlines (Slovenske Aerolinie) is an airline based in Bratislava, Slovakia. ... PBAir is a regional airline based in Bangkok, Thailand. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Palaeography (British) or paleography (American) (from the Greek palaiÃ³s, old and graphein, to write) is the study of ancient handwriting, independent of the language (Koine Greek, Classical Latin, Medieval Latin, Old English, etc. ... Variants of the Latin alphabet are used by the writing systems of many languages throughout the world. ... Example of a letter with a diacritic A diacritical mark or diacritic, also called an accent, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. ... The term punctuation has two different linguistic meanings: in general, the act and the effect of punctuating, i. ... Roman numerals are a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. ... Unicode as of version 5. ... List of Latin letters. ...

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